Life habit: lichenized; Thallus: squamulose, heteromerous, without a prothallus; squamules: scattered, raised on one edge; upper surface: olive-green to brown-green; soredia present or absent; isidia absent; upper cortex: paraplectenchymatous; medulla: white, I-; photobiont: primary one a chlorococcoid alga, secondary photobiont absent; lower cortex: absent; Ascomata: apothecial, stipitate with short stalks, margin pale, biatorine; paraphyses: simple or rarely branched, slightly swollen at apices; asci: cylindrical-clavate, with amyloid tholus and fuzzy coat, 8-spored; ascospores: 3-septate, hyaline and non-halonate; Secondary metabolites: none detected; Geography: Mediteranean region of Europe and western North America; Substrate: on bark.; Notes: Originally Waynea was described as a monotypic genus. Subsequently two additional species have been placed in the genus based on careful morphological and anatomical comparisons (Roux et al. 1995), but neither of the other species have yet been found fruiting. Thus, their proper placement requires further confirmation.