Thallus pale olivaceous-grey, thin, scurfy, areolate-cracked to continuous, areolae convex, verrucose, or minutely squamulose, minutely granular-verrucose or papillate, 1-4 cm diam. Apothecia pale red-brown or fawnish or pale orange-pink, sessile, solitary or confluent, 0.1-1.2 mm diam., round to irregular, ± flattened to subconvex, immarginate, disc matt, waxy, often minutely wrinkled-papillate, opaque when wet. Hymenium pale straw-coloured or golden brown, of dense, conglutinate paraphyses, 15-20 µm tall. Hypothecium massive, pale yellow-brown or red-brown. Asci uniseriate or subbiseriate. Ascospores ellipsoid 13 × 6 µm.