HABITAT oldgrowth chaparral and conglomerate outcrops at top of high transverse ridge; SUBSTRATE north face of conglomerate outcrop on top of ridge; ASPECT shaded; NOTES whitish subsquamulose crust, clustered flexuous lecideine apothecia, rims black thin even contorted, disks blackish red brown epruinose contorted, thallus K+y C- KC- UV- 350-375nm, epihymenium brown POL- clearing in K?, exciple of densely radiating hyphae and opaque to brownish toward margin, algae underneath apothecia, hymenium and hypothecium hyaline, exciple and hypothecium finely POL+ clearing in K, paraphyses well-branched and not separating easily even in K, asci with KI+ blue thollus and KI- tube?; SPORES 8 per ascus, simple, smooth, hyaline, irregularly ellipsoid with 1-few oil drops, 10-15 x 4-7 m (mostly immature?).