Saxicolous on coastal andesitic conglomerate rocks subject to salt spray. Thallus granular; minutely subsquamulose or lacking, in irregular patches; granules 0.2?0.5 mm diameter; golden yellow to orange-white, K+ reddish purple, rounded to irregular, convex or plane, with apparent brown-black basal prothallus. Apothecia scattered and rounded to clustered and contorted through mutual pressure, 0.1?1.2 mm diameter; disc subconcave to plane; orange-brown-red-brown; thalline margin continuous or of scattered granules, thin or occasionally thick, same colour as thallus, proper margin thin or thick, raised and orange, paler than disc. Epithecium yellow-orange, densely granular, 8?25 ?m thick. Hymenium colourless, without oil droplets, 60?80 ?m tall.Paraphyses slender, 1.5 ?m wide, apices submoniliform, swollen, to 5 ?m diameter. Asci clavate or cylindrical-clavate, 45?70 ? 12?23 ?m, eight-spored. Ascospores biseriate in ascus, ellipsoid, 12.00?26.25 ? 5.0?10.0 ?m wide; septum 3.0?7.5 ?m, one-quarter to one-third the length of the spore. Description from Sparks et al. 2014 (Notes on Caloplaca allanii Zahlbr. (Teloschistaceae) a poorly known West Auckland, North Island, New Zealand endemic, New Zealand Journal of Botany 52: 304-308).