Thallus pale pinkish, ochraceous or yellowish-white, thin, granular, friable, ± areolate in raised lumps 0.25 mm diam., prothallus pale, indistinct, K-, 1-4 cm diam. Apothecia sessile, applanate, rounded or with undulate margins, solitary or 2-5-confluent, 0.25-1.4 mm diam., disc bright red, matt or minutely granular, margins thin, shining, entire to subcrenulate, concolorous with disc. Epithecium dense red-brown 13-20 µm thick. Hymenium colourless c. 80 µm tall. Hypothecium pale yellowish or colourless c. 50 µm thick. Ascospores biseriate, oval-ellipsoid with rounded or slightly pointed ends, straight, 12-17 × 5-8.3 µm septum ¼ to ⅛ length of spore.