Type. USA, Alaska, Kenai Peninsula Borough, Kenai Fjords National Park, N end of Harris Bay, near opening to Northwestern Lagoon, open alluvial flats with groves of young Picea, elevation 3 m, 59.7487°N, 149.8462°W, NAD83, on Picea snag, 8 July 2015, Bruce McCune et al. 36219 (OSC, holotype; H, isotype, H9214302). GenBank Accession nos: MN906272 (ITS), OR060816 (IGS).
Description. Thallus caespitose, hair-like, up to 7 cm long, bicolorous, basal portions black, apical portions pale brown to chestnut brown. Branching anisotomic, giving rise to distinct, conspicuously thickened main stems and sparse secondary branches, main stems to 3 cm long and 0.7 mm wide, terminal portions mostly long and flexuous, rather shiny. Third-order branchlets sparse to abundant, mostly perpendicular, and spinulose; spinules 1–4 mm long. Pseudocyphellae rare, inconspicuous, brownish dark brown, elongate fusiform, plane or slightly depressed, c. 0.05 mm wide, 0.3–1 mm long. Soralia and isidia absent. Apothecia and condiomata not seen.
Chemistry. Cortex and medulla Pd− or Pd+ red, secondary substances absent or containing fumarprotocetraric acid.
Substrate, Distribution & Habitat. Epyphitic or saxicolous; the species is currently known from two specimens: one from Alaska, USA in the oceanic boreal region, and one from the Komi Republic of Russia in the low alpine.