Thallus crustose, granular-furfuraceous or lacking, white, K-, often ± reduced to granules round the apothecia, saxicolous. Apothecia sessile, crowded, rounded to ± irregularly contorted through mutual pressure, 0.1-0.5 mm diam., disc ferrugineous brown-red, matt, concave to plane, rarely convex and immarginate with age, margins persistent, orange, entire, sometimes occluded with age. Ascospores biseriate, ellipsoid-oblong, apices rounded, straight, 2-locular, 13.6-17.0 × 6-8.3 µm, septum thin, c. 1/8 length of spore. Paraphyses moniliform at ends, end cell clavate.