Thallus squamulose, dispersed on a thin, black prothallus. Squamules flattened, small-foliose at margins, simple, flattened globose to ± stellate, coralloid to 1 mm wide, congested, ascending, laciniate-coralloid centrally, apices lobulate and deflexed, tightly packed in a coralloid crust, ± terete or laterally flattened, yellowish or greenish-buff, not pale green or whitish as in , matt to rather granular, faintly whitish-pubescent at apices. Cephalodia pale blue or brownish-grey, crowded, squamulose, between thalline squamules. Lower surface white at margins, yellow-brown centrally, without thick tomentum, arachnoid, noticeably striate as in , attached to substrate by medullary hyphae, rhizines absent. Apothecia sessile, plane, round at first, becoming convoluted-irregular with age, 0.5-2.5 mm diam., margins crenate- eroded, rather thick, disc chestnut-brown or red-brown, matt, smooth, plane to undulate, not pruinose, fissured or gyrose-etched, thalline exciple wrinkled-corrugate, areolate-scabrid. Ascospores 15-21 × 8-10 µm.