[5] To simplify the authorship of the species, Brodo and Ahti decided to exclude Merrill and Magnusson from the author citation, but acknowledged that "this procedure does not do justice to the originators of the name.

"[3] The type specimen was collected in 1908 from King County, Washington by amateur botanist Albert Scott Foster.

[9] The vernacular name of the lichen is the netted specklebelly, which refers to the net-like ridges on the upper thallus as well as the pale specks of pseudocyphellae on the undersurface.

[10] Lobaria anthraspis, which shares a similar distribution in northwestern North America, closely resembles L. anomala in appearance.

[12] Lobaria anomala occurs in western North America, along the Pacific coast of the United States and Canada.

It grows on both deciduous and coniferous trees on humid locales, particularly in the Interior Cedar Hemlock zone and in low-elevation coastal forests.