The type specimen was collected from the inner part of the massif of the Sorak Mountains in Gangwon Province, South Korea.

The surface is more or less smooth to finely granular near lobe tips, and partly covered with very thin white pruina.

The soralia are more or less punctiform or irregular in outline, laminal or terminal on central lobes, initiating as spherical to elongate isidia that soon dissolve into soredia.

The lichen flora is abundant at the locality and Wetmoreana decipioides was common in suitable places away from both rain and running water.

The Seoraksan National Park, where the type locality is located, has many habitats included mainly old-growth forests on steep mountain slopes dominated by deciduous trees.