Thallus thin (to 200 µm thick), dark greyish to olive-brownish, warty, somewhat leprous or lacking. Apothecia sessile 0.2-1.2 mm diam., 0.2-0.3 mm high, sessile to subimmersed, concave, disc brownish-pink or yellowish-brown, shining, varnish-like, margins prominent, whitish or pale flesh-coloured, translucent when wet, entire to subcrenate, distinctly inflexed when young obscuring disc. Hymenium 100-130 µm tall, colourless or yellowish with inspersed yellowish granules. Paraphyses, simple 1 µm thick. Asci 70-90 × 12-20 µm. Ascospores oblong-fusiform, slightly constricted at septa, 3-septate, 13-19(-25) × 5-6.5 µm.