Anaptychia palmulata (Michx.) Vain.

    Thallus loosely attached to its substrate, formed of long and narrow lobes strap-shaped, flat or slightly convex, very branched and very divided, particularly at the top of the lobes which are often webbed, sometimes with small lobules towards the center, upper surface matt, very pale olive-brown in humid weather, pale greyish, whitish, cream in dry weather, slightly browning in old age from the base, whitish underside with simple rhizines. Apothecia generally present but sterile thalli are not rare, laminal, sessile, 1.5-2.5 mm in diameter, flat disc, reddish-brown, brownish, thalline margin thick, curved towards the disc, concolorous to the thallus ( but sometimes tinged with orange), often with small lobules at its margin. Spores elliptical, brown, 1-septate, 35-46 x 17-23 µm. Rare taxon found on the bark of deciduous trees (particularly towards the base of the trunks) or more rarely on mossy rocks in forests not very far from the sea or hilly forests under maritime influence. The specimen presented here were photographed in Bonifato woodland and were collected in the Lobarion together with Degelia plumbea and Platismatia glauca, etc. 

N.B. Provisional identification for this taxon which is difficult to classify because it presents crossed characteristics with Anaptychia, Physcia, Physconia, Heterodermia and which therefore merits an in-depth study to establish its status.

Cf. Anaptychia runcinata very similar, except for its dark brown colors.