thallus rimose-areolate to areolate, pale gray almost entirely but with some brown places showing through on a few areoles, mostly flat like tessellata to weakly convex to strongly convex near struggle zones, P-; apothecia angular to ~round, black, epruinose, ~raised, flat, ~flush, rims concolorous with thallus to dark brown in several; epihymenium brown; hymenium ~150um, I+b-r; subhymenium I+b-r; paraphyses strongly moniliform; spores 8 per ascus, ~20-22x12-13um; conidia (10)13-17um