The longer it was out of the ground, the worse it stank. Very pungent, sour manure type scent.
Synonym Caloplaca pyracea. Thallus is thin but there, mostly a kind of greenish brown, seeming almost slightly areolate but that might be partly the texture of the bark. Apothecia orange and starting like warts and then opening as they develop, first margin yellowed, and 2nd margin is color of the thallus and restricted only to the very edge. Objectively pretty.