Lecanora ussuriensis was formally described as a new species in 2014 by lichenologists Sergey Kondratyuk, Laszlo Lőkös, and Jae-Seoun Hur.

The type specimen was collected near the Zapredeljnoe settlement in Slavyanka, (Khasansky District of Primorsky Krai); there it was found growing on silicate rocks along the seashore.

The apothecia, which are elevated above the thallus surface, measure 0.5–1.5 mm in diameter, and are lecanorine in form with a brownish, shiny disc that is initially flat before becoming somewhat convex.

[1] The Korean species Mikhtomia geumohdoensis is also similar in appearance, but its thallus is much smaller and thinner and lacks yellow colouring, and its soralia has a different morphology.

chalybaea, and unidentified species from the genera Caloplaca, Lecania, Lecanora, and Lepraria,[1] and Yoshimuria galbina.