Lecanora kenyana Kirika & Lumbsch

Thallus crustose, verrucose to verruculose, thin to thick, glossy, whitish to greenish; margin indistinct; prothallus not visible; sorediate. Soralia roundish, concave, 0.5–1.2 mm diam., remaining distinct or coalescing, with granular soredia, yellowish green to yellowish gray. Apothecia sessile, strictly constricted at base, 0.6–2.0 mm diam., lecanorine; disc red-brown, shiny, plane, epruinose; margin concolourous with thallus, prominent, thick, smooth, entire to verruculose, flexuose. Amphithecial cortex uniform, gelatinous, inspersed with crystals, hyaline, 25–45 µm thick, with hyphae growing out basally. Amphithecium with small and large crystals (=melacarpella-type). Hypothecium hyaline, 25–30 µm high, parathecium hyaline, with yellowish crystals, 5–7 µm thick. Hymenium hyaline, 55–70 µm high, clear. Epihymenium red–brown, 10–12 µm thick, with numerous, small crystals; pigmentation and crystals dissolving in K (=pulicaris–type). Paraphyses sparingly branched, apically slightly swollen, hyaline. Asci clavate, 50–60 × 10–14 µm, 8–spored. Ascospores ellipsoid to narrowly ellipsoid, 12–17 × 4.5–6.5 µm. Pycnidia not seen.

At present this species is known from bark of juniper trees in open habitats at altitudes above 2800m in forests dominated by Hagenia and Podocarpus. Associated lichens included Heterodermia leucomelos, Lecanora caesiorubella, Leptogium laceroides, Lobaria pulmonaria, Pannaria fulvescens, Physcia albata, Pseudocyphellaria aurata, Physcia crocata, Varicellaria velata, and several Usnea spp.