Parmotrema saxoisidiatum

The upper thallus surface of Parmotrema saxoisidiatum is white to whitish gray, with a dull to shiny texture and densely reticulated and speckled appearance. It is often isidiate, with cylindrical isidia that are mostly simple or sparsely branched, occasionally clustered and longer along the lobe margin. The isidia have a brown to blackened tip and lack cilia. The lobes are small to moderate-sized (typically 0.3–4 mm wide), angular, and have sparsely to abundantly ciliate margins. The lower surface is black, gradually becoming dark brown towards the margin, without a distinct rhizine-free zone. The rhizines are long, slender, black, mostly simple, and sometimes sparsely branched. The medulla is white. Apothecia and pycnidia have not been observed among the collected specimens.^[2]

The cortex contains atranorin, while the medulla has salazinic acid. The expected results of standard chemical spot tests in the cortex are P+ (yellow), K+ (yellow), KC−, C−, UV−; and in the medulla P+ (deep yellow), K+ (yellow turning dark red), KC−, C−, UV−.^[2]

• List of Parmotrema species