Thallus olive-black, moderately thin, subpapillose-roughened, papillae somewhat crowded, minute (barely 0.1 millim. thick); apothecia black, lecideine, convex (0.5-0.7 millim. broad), white within; spores 8, globose-ellipsoid or globose, 0.009-0.015 millim. long, 0.009-0.011 millim. thick, epithecium dark brown/grayish-brown, paraphyses almost of moderate size, hypothecium hyaline. Iodine hymenial gelatin wine red.
Allied to previous [Collema triptophylloides], but spores now discernible. Thallus intricately subfruticose-branched throughout, barely 1 millim. tall, hormogonimia contained in thin layer. Iodine wine red.