HABITAT oldgrowth chaparral and conglomerate outcrops at top of high transverse ridge; SUBSTRATE north face of conglomerate cliff; ASPECT shaded; NOTES yellow-orange lumpy scattered crust, deep red-brown apothecia, margins thick even smooth deep red-orange, disk red-brown matte, exciple above thalline margin radiating hyphae becomine squeezed out below apothecia, paraphyses slightly swollen at tips and often branched near tips; SPORES 18-20 x 7-8 m, isthmus 1-3 m.