[2] Canoparmelia, a segregate of the parmelioid lichen genus Pseudoparmelia, was circumscribed by John Elix and Mason Hale in 1986.

The thallus is made of more or less rotund lobes that are 3.0–5.0 mm wide and lack cilia; the medulla is white.

Canoparmelia produces small ellipsoid ascospores that measure 10–14 by 6–8 μm.

The conidia are fusiform (spindle-shaped) or bifusiform, measuring 7–10 μm long.

Elix & Hale (1986) has been analysed molecularly and shown to belong in the genus Parmelinella.