Thompson, J., 1997. American Arctic Lichens: The Microlichens.
Thallus thick, soft, chinky-areolate, areolae to 0.5 mm broad, flattened, upper surface granular, yellowish or clay-colored. Apothecia immersed in areolae, level with surface or slightly above, tiny, 0.35-0.45 mm broad; margin shining, prominent around disk; exciple brown exteriorly, interior hyaline; disk black, flat, bare; hypothecium hyaline; epithecium bluish brown; hymenium 85-90 μm, intensely blue-green with granules included; paraphyses coherent, simple or rarely branched, tips not thickened; spores broadly oval to subglobose, 12-14 x 8-10 μm.
Reactions: K—, C—, I—; hymenium 1+ wine-red.
This species, growing on acid rock, is known only from the type specimen collected by Theodor Fries on Disko Island, Greenland. It may be sought in the American sector of the Arctic, but is a species needing restudy.