dark brown matte-shiny areolate crust with deep cracks, areoles polygonal slightly convex, cortex C- in section ~10um to as much as 30um beside apothecia with thin dark red-brown layer of globose 5um cells POL-, algae even and continuous, medulla POL+, lower surface dark brown, apothecia 1-few per areole black concave some with raised parathecial crown epruinose, epihymenium dark red-brown POL-, hymenium clear ~100um, algae sparse below apothecia, hypothecium yellowish faint to ~25um, paraphyses slender ~2um only slightly expanded at tips, parathecium expanded to as much as 100um at top, spores many per ascus but hard to find them separate and mature, pycnidia immersed flask-shaped, conidia filiform? (not mature)