1846 Dana Zooph. (1848) 618Branches much compressed, very broad,..lobato-digitate. 
Ibid. 647Flabellate and lobato-foliaceous. 
Ibid. 496Branchlets angular, irregular, lobato-ramulose. 
1871 W. A. Leighton Lichen-flora 21Lobato-divided or subradiate. 
Ibid. 26Lobato-partite at the apex. 
1889 Syd. Soc. Lex. ,Lobato-sinuate, applied to a lobate leaf which has curved sinuations between the lobes. 
ORIGIN: from lobate -o-