Thompson, J., 1997. American Arctic Lichens: The Microlichens.
Thallus pale ashy to rose-tinged (iron in substratum?), small, effuse, more or less circular but not zonate or radiate, areolate, the areolae to 0.7 mm broad, angular or rounded, verrucose to becoming columnar, the upper side irregular to rough. Apothecia to 0.7 mm broad, elevated in subcolumnar areolae above thallus, simple or composite; margin entire and thick, of same color as thallus; proper exciple indistinct; disk black, bare, concave or flat; hypothecium hyaline, 1+ blue; epihymenium olive-brown or yellow-brown; hymenium 55-75 µm, inspersed; paraphyses slender, branched, 2-2.5 µm moniliform; spores 8, ellipsoid, 14-25 x 8-13 µm. Conidia not known.
Reactions: K-, C-, P-, I-.
This species grows on acid rocks. It is known from northeastern Greenland and from Ellesmere island.