The type specimen was collected from Gunung Mulu National Park (Miri Division), where it grows on riverside trees at low elevations.

[2] The specific epithet honours Brian J. Coppins, who collected the type, and co-described several new species with her.

[2] Gothamie Weerakoon, Robert Lücking, and H. Thorsten Lumbsch proposed a transfer to Leucodecton in 2014.

The apothecia are numerous throughout the thallus surface; they occur solitarily, and are 0.17–0.2 mm in diameter with a round pore.

The ascospores are thin walled, shaped like narrow ellipsoids, colourless, and number eight per ascus.