HABITAT dry hardwood forest on south-facing slopes of cove; SUBSTRATE Kalmia bark; ASPECT mostly open; NOTES nice specimen on mountain laurel limb between TT and clearcut; THALLUS relatively appressed, yellowish-green to whitish (but not usnic see spot tests), finely reticulate-cracked (conspicuous), fringed with cylindrical isidia sometimes on tiny lobules, short black isidia abundant and occasionally on various parts of lobules and isidia but rarely from tips of isidia, black below, K+y, C-, KC-; MEDULLA white, K+ yellow slowly dark red, C-, KC-.