Brigantiaea nipponicum Brigantiaea nipponicum (Sato) Haffellner Brigantiaea nipponicum has a dark gray, dish-shaped apothecium (2 mm in diameter). The thallus is thin and attaches to a tree bark and the spores are brown and muriform. The species was once collected from Tokushima and Kochi but recently, there are no reports of new discoveries. A large part of its ecology and types of the substrates remain unknown. distribution map of Brigantiaea nipponicum