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- .