Locality:
Peru, Arequipa, Camana, Camana; Just NE of Lomas de Camana, 15 km in from Pacific Ocean, 25 km ENE of Camana (km 153 on Arequipa road).
Elevation:
900 meters
(2952ft)
Habitat:
Just NE of fog zone. Extensive lichen community in otherwise completely plantless gently rolling coastal desert ("Pampa del Toro"?). A) Large clumps lichen 2-5 cm diam. lying loose on coarse sand (the orange Teloschistes peruensis and Anaptychia neoleucomelaena f. squarrosa). B) Small crustose lichens on minor flat meandering depressions of fine sand-mud, in A. (Buellia auriculata, Solenopsora requieni).