Relicina colombiana Elix & Sipman  

Mycobank MB 517810

Thallus small foliose, adnate to tightly adnate, 1–3.5 cm wide. Lobes separate or rarely sparingly imbricate, dichotomously branched, linear-elongate, 0.2–1.0 mm wide, lobulate; lobules marginal, sublinear, simple or rarely dichotomously branched, 0.05–1.0 mm wide; apices pointed to subtruncate; bulbate cilia conspicuous, forming a dense marginal fringe, simple or often furcate, black. Upper surface pale yellow-green, ±flat, shiny at the apices, smooth to rugulose, emaculate, without isidia. Medulla white. Lower surface black; rhizines sparse, black, simple then becoming densely entangled. Apothecia not seen. Pycnidia common, black, immersed; ostiole punctiform, to 0.1 mm wide. Conidia bacilliform, ca. 3 x 1 µm. Secondary chemistry: usnic acid (major), norstictic acid (major), stictic acid (submajor), constictic acid (minor), salazinic acid (trace), cryptostictic acid (trace), peristictic acid (trace), connorstictic acid (trace).