[1] This species is very similar to the apostulate Canoparmelia caroliniana, showing the same colour, size and reticulate maculae.

The species' ramification is irregularly dichotomous, with rounded apices, an oval axillary sinus, and a black-lined margin with no cilia.

[1] Its pustulae are found as marginal and submarginal, its coralloid being isidioid, at times exhibiting granular soredia apically.

Its rhizines are simple, measuring between 0.3 to 0.8 millimetres (0.012 to 0.031 in) long, being coloured brown and being few in number.

[1] This species was first found in the Parque Natural do Caraça, in Minas Gerais, at an altitude of 1,330 metres (4,360 ft) on a tree in a light forest.