Life habit: lichenized (mutualistic with algal photobionts) thallus: fruticose (fruticous), shrub-like, beard-like [th] upper surface: grey(ish) | brown(ish) (if pale: fawn, tan; if mid: cinnamon) | yellow(ish) brown [th marginal and upper surface] specific structures: absent ascomata: absent secondary metabolites: present secondary metabolites: alectorialic acid | atranorin | barbatolic acid | fumarprotocetraric acid primary photobiont: present secondary photobionts (eg in cephalodia): absent primary photobiont: chlorophytaceous – trebouxiaceous, chlorococcoid.

substrate: bark, cork, plant surface – trunks, branches, twigs.