Thallus fruticose, forming pulvinate clumps, 1-4 cm diam., and to 1 cm tall, saxicolous or muscicolous. Lobes erect, interlaced, narrow, 3-10 mm long and 0.15-0.5 mm wide, yellow-orange to orange-red, sparingly branched, smooth and whitish beneath except in upper portions, flat or canaliculate above, sparingly fibrillose on margins, fibrils concolorous with thallus, 0.5-1 mm long, surface matt, ± striate or minutely scabrid, reddish-pruinose, margins knobbly or glomerulate, granular-sorediate. Soredia concolorous with thallus in minute elliptical soralia or sometimes with a few farinose yellow-soredia present also. Apothecia not seen.