Nipponoparmelia laevior

Nipponoparmelia laevior is a species of foliose lichen in the family Parmeliaceae. Originally described from Japan in 1890 as Parmelia laevior, this lichen was transferred to the newly established genus Nipponoparmelia in 2010 following molecular studies that revealed it belonged to a distinct East Asian evolutionary lineage, and it now serves as the type species for this genus. The species has been recorded from Japan, Taiwan, China, and across the southern Russian Far East, where it grows as an epiphyte on the bark of conifer and broad-leaved trees in mixed forests. It forms pale greenish to brownish-grey leaf-like growths 6–15 cm across and is distinguished by its shiny, flat upper surface with tiny point-like pores arranged along the lobe edges, and by its frequent production of urn-shaped fruiting bodies that open at maturity to reveal a radially split disc....read more on Wikipedia.