Thallus pale yellowish-green or greyish-green or whitish, often ± effuse and evanescent, minutely verrucose-uneven, granular, furfuraceous to ± continuous and irregularly rimose, matt or shining, in irregular patches 1-5 cm diam., delimited or not by a marginal black prothallus. Apothecia sessile (± subinnate on lignum), round to subirregular, solitary or 2-3-confluent and distorted through mutual pressure, 0.1-1.2(-1.5) mm diam., subconcave to plane to convex, disc pale to dark pinkish-brown with or without a thin, grey-white pruina, matt, margins persistent, pale flesh-coloured, entire to subcrenulate. Epithecium pale red-brown 10-14 µm thick. Hymenium colourless, 40-52 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellowish 20-30 µm thick. Paraphyses simple, densely conglutinate, not thickened at apices. Ascospores oval, 17-22.1 × 10.2-15.3 µm, wall 1.7 µm thick. Chemistry: 2, 7-dichloronorlichexanthone, thiophanic acid and 2,5,7-trichloronorlichexanthone [J. Santesson Ark. Kemi 31: 57-64 (1969)].