Anomomorpha tuberculata Lücking, Umaña & Will-Wolf  

Mycobank MB 517734

Thallus corticolous, up to 10 cm diam., 50–100 µm thick, continuous; surface uneven, grey to pale brownish or yellowish grey, with numerous large tubercles; prothallus absent. Tubercles 0.8–1.5 mm diam. and up to 1.5 mm high, orbicular with the base constricted, white, consisting of a wall of numerous corticate, angular plates (resembling a soccer ball) which eventually break off as angular-rounded schizidia (especially at the apex) to expose a soredia-like surface composed of an irregular mass of hyphae intermingled with photobiont cells. Thallus in section with cartilaginous upper cortex, irregular algal layer and large clusters of crystals. Apothecia angular-rounded to elongate and then flexuose, unbranched, sessile with the base strongly constricted, with thick, prominent thalline margin, 1–3 mm long, 0.5–0.1 mm wide, 0.4–0.5 mm high; disc exposed, grey-brown with white pruina and therefore appearing grey-pruinose; proper margin indistinct, labia entire; thalline margin conspicuous, thick, prominent. Excipulum uncarbonized, orange-brown, 100–150 µm wide; hypothecium prosoplectenchymatous, 30–50 µm high, colourless to pale yellow; hymenium 120–150 µm high, colourless, strongly inspersed, inspersion partly disappearing in K; epithecium granulose, 5–10 µm high, grey-brown. Paraphyses unbranched; asci fusiform to clavate, 100–130 x 10–15 µm. Ascospores 8 per ascus, ellipsoid, 3-septate, 7–10 x 5–6 µm, 1.5 times as long as wide, colourless. Secondary chemistry: no substances detected by TLC.