[2] The type specimen of Lecanora xanthoplumosella, was collected from the Razorback Range (north of Mount Morgan) in Queensland, Australia.

Collected by the second author in August 1993, it was found in a dry sclerophyll forest situated on a steep slope enriched with Cycas and Macrozamia, growing on metamorphic rocks.

Its surface, smooth and epruinose, meaning it lacks any powdery or crystalline covering, is notably free of isidia and soredia, two common forms of vegetative reproduction in lichens.

verdonii, which is characterised by its black apothecial discs, egranulose epihymenium — an upper layer of the hymenium lacking granules — and the presence of usnic acid, a substance not found in L. xanthoplumosella.

[2] Native to Australia, Lecanora xanthoplumosella can be found growing on siliceous rocks in semi-exposed to exposed habitats in dry sclerophyll forests in Queensland.