Thallus pale creamish to whitish, spreading in irregular patches, 2-10 cm diam., very thin, areolate-cracked in a jig-saw pattern, areolae angular, polygonal 0.1-0.5 mm wide, smooth or minutely roughened-scabrid, granular or scaly. Apothecia sessile, frequent, very small to 0.5 mm diam., usually less, plane at first becoming convex, subglobose, translucent when wet, red-brown to dark brown, matt, epruinose, margins very thin, concolorous with disc or darker, not easily seen, excluded in mature fruits. Hymenium pale orange-yellow, 65 µm tall. Ascospores ovoid, 10-14(-17) × 6-7(-8.5) µm.