Protologue Description: Ramalina superfraxinea FOLLM. et SÁNCH.-PINTO sp. nov.
Species nova ex affinitate Ramalinae fraxineae (L.) ACH. (sect. Ramalina, subsect. Myelopoea, ser. Compressiusculae); epiphytica, corticicola, acidophila, photophila, hygrophytica, poleophoba; thaIIus fruticosus, plus minusve niduliformis, rigidus, suberectus vel subpendulus, 10-20 cm longus, stramineus, luteoviridis vel viridigriseus, opacus, modice subdichotome ramosus; ramuli applanati, glabri vel irregulariter canaliculati, normaliter ad 1,0 cm lati et 0,5 mm crassi, apice acutiusculo; pseudocyphella punctiformia vel elongata rara, soralia isidiaque desunt; stratum corticale prosoplectenchymaticum, leviter luteolum, ad 30 µm in diametro; stratum chondroideum sub cortice continuum, versus medullam fasces hypharum irregulares formans; stratum algarum discontinuum, phycobiontes trebouxioidei, globosi, 8-12 µm in diametro, in glomerulis paucicellulares inter fasces chondroidei dispersi; stratum medullare albidum, compactum, ex hyphis crassiusculis, rugosis et pachydermaticis, 1,5-3,0 µm in diametro, dense contextum; reactiones thalli: K sufflavus, K + N flavus; substantiae secundariae: acidum usnicum (cortice), acidum divaricaticum (medulla).
Ascocarpia apothecioidea, numerosa, lateralia vel subterminalia lecanorina, ad 1 (- 2) cm in diametro, breve stipitata, calcarata; discus primum cupuliformis, demum planus vel irregulariter undulatus et fere emarginatus, nudus, leviter rugulosus, thallo concolor vel sufflavus; epithecium tenue, granulosum, leviter infuscatum; hypothecium tenue, hyalinum, strato algarum superpositum; hymenium 50-60 µm altum, incoloratum, I intense caerulescens; paraphyses filiformes, eseptatae, capitatae, ad basim 1,5 µm, ad apicem 3,0 µm in diametro; asci clavati, unitunicati, leptodermatici, octospori, 40-50 µm alti, apice rotundo, tholo 3-5 µm alto; ascosporae uniseriales vel biseriales, reniformes, pachydermaticae, uniseptatae, 5-7 µm latae, 13-16 µm longae; pycnidia ignota.
Locus typicus: Insulae Canarienses, Tenerife, San Juan del Reparo, ad corticem Pini canariensis C. SMITH, 800 m, NO-NW, pH 6,5, leg. FOLLMANN et SANCHEZ-PINTO (1978); hoIotypus: KASSEL BOT-LICH 26 304, isotypi: Lichenes Exsiccati Selecti a Museo Historiae Naturalis Casselensi Editi No. 314.