Thallus thin, lobate, orbicular to spreading, 1-5(-8) cm diam., corticolous, upper surface brown, greyish-brown or pale grey with varying amounts of pubescence, particularly on the backs of the apothecia, wrinkled, matt or shining, ± faveolate and often ± maculate (×10 lens), margins indented, broadly lobulate or denticulate, phyllidiate. Phyllidia terete to ± flattened to 1 mm diam., mainly marginal, occasionally spreading over surface. Lower surface black or dark brown, tomentose or densely pubescent, rarely in part glabrous. Apothecia common, to 8 mm diam., rounded to reniform, with a thin, dentate thalline margin, disc red-brown, matt or shining. Ascospores pale reddish-brown, 3-septate, 20-25 × 6-9 µm. Chemistry: Hopane-7α, 22-diol, 7β-acetoxyhopane-22-ol and unidentified pigments.