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Data Set Maintenance: Data set standard item. Data set author(s): Rambold G. (96-02-07). Data set reviewer(s): Kainz C. (00-11-16); to be published after submission; 96-02-07.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted. Taxonomic rank: species. Miriquidica. Lecanoraceae Körb. (1855).

Taxonomic Literature: Rambold G. & Schwab A.J. 1990. Rusty coloured species of the lichen genus Miriquidica (Lecanoraceae). - Nord. J. Bot. 10: 117-121.

Thallus: Crustose, irregularly not subdivided parts, areolate (primarily areolate) (more or less); separate thallus parts thin (0.2 - 0.5 mm). Thallus Outline: Simple; persistent; black or grey. Upper Surface: Grey, brown, or grey-brown, smooth or rough; not sorediate. Lower Surface: Not rhizinate.

Reproduction Strategy: Only known as sterile, asexually reproducing form or with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Not emerging, becoming adnate, .4-.8 mm in diam.. Margin: Excluded (mostly), indistinct or distinct. Disk: Plane to sub-weakly convex, black to dark brown, epruinose to pruinose. Exciple: Black to green to brown. Parathecium (proper excipulum): Dark brown or grey-brown. Amphithecium (thalline excipulum): Present. Epithecium: Apical cells distinctly swollen, brown or olive. Hymenium: White. Hypothecium: Black, brown, or brownish red.

Pycnidia: Globular or cerebriform (rarely). Conidia: Filiform or curved; 13-20 µm long.

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