thallus areolate, areoles angular ashy-whitish to slightly brownish roughened slightly convex, K~y slow and dingy and weak C+r KC+r UV- P-, medulla I+v deep, apothecia sessile black ~round to angular or contorted with prominent dusty black rims, epihymenium dark grayish brown K- POL-, hymenium ~75um hyaline clear, hypothecium ~brownish to white coarse POL+, exciple purplish-reddish-brown darker at margin C+r in section, asci K/I+ at very top, spores 8 per ascus simple hyaline ellipsoid-oblong thick-walled ~10-12x4.5-5.5um, pycnidia complex compound affairs forming clusters of black irregular pits in areoles, conidia straight filiform with ~rounded tips ~10-15x1-1.5um