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Data Set Maintenance: Data set authentic and standard item. Data set author(s): Esslinger T. (99-11-16). Data set not to be published after submission.

Nomenclature: Current taxonomic status: accepted or basionymous. Taxonomic rank: species. Physconia. Physciaceae Zahlbr. (1898).

Biogeography: Continent: Asia-Temperate, Europe, and Northern America. Checklist records: Sonoran Desert and United States and Canada (continental).

Thallus: Foliose, lobed; lobes linear or irregularly flabellate; plane; separate thallus parts 1-2-(3) mm wide. Thallus Size and Differentiation: Up to 10 cm in diameter; apex not curved. Upper Surface: Grey, brown, or grey-brown; pruinose; pruina usually abundant; continuous or sometimes patchy (especially on lobe ends); without hairs; not isidate; not sorediate; not lobulate or lobulate (irregular lobules occasional, sparse to rarely abundant). Lower Surface: Black or brown in the centre, white or pale brown along the margin; rhizinate; rhizines moderately abundant, black, branched, squarrosely branched.

Upper Cortex: Outer cortical layer paraplectenchymatous. Medulla: White. Lower Cortex: Present; prosoplectenchymatous, of periclinal hyphae.

Reproduction Strategy: Usually with sexual (and possible asexual) stages. Ascocarps: Abundant, up to 3 mm in diam.. Margin: Often lobulate, smooth.

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