Thallus ochraceous depressed-granulate, thin, subrimose; apothecia black, plane, marginate (almost 1 millim. wide or less), concolourous within, hymenial layer becoming ashy; spores 8, hyaline, ellipsoid, 1-septate, 0.021-27 millim. long, 0.010-12 milim. thick, epithecium becoming thin, apices thicker, hypothecium dark brown/grayish-brown. Iodine hymenial gelatin becoming blue, then soon yellow-becoming red.—Medulla I-. In genearl appearance it is almost L. contigua f. flavicunda (Ach.).