Rounded, dark brown to black capsules on short stalks. Cups are unbranched, round-toothed, and curled inward on margins. Cups are greenish mineral-grey. Cups are 0.5 to 1.5 cm tall. See next photo below.
Clubs are yellowish or grey.
Tips of clubs are red. Clubs are 1 to 2 cm tall. Ascending shrub lichen with distinct, round stem with numerous branches. Resembles a leathery dark lettuce leaf, up to about 8 cm wide, attached at its centre to a rocky surface.