dark brown convex areolate crust, prothallus conspicuous fimbriate black, cortex ~25um with thin epinecral layer brownish, medulla with some POL+ granules I- K+y KC~ rose?, apothecia black superficial, rim well-developed prominent shiny black, disk rough matte black, epihymenium dark faintly greenish brown becoming pale brown in K, exciple dark brown outside to hyaline inside, hypothecium dark brown continuous with exciple, hymenium ~60um hyaline not inspersed I+ red-brown K/I+ blue, paraphyses with swollen pigmented caps, asci with thick tip with K/I+ blue at very tip and K/I+ torus below that, spores 8 per ascus hyaline smooth simple elliptical ~9x6um