Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species with a granulose-verrucose, olivaceous brown thallus, the verrucae arising singly from a bluish-black hypothallus, later coalescing into a more or less continuous crust, apothecia small, sessile, the disc plane, reddish black, the margin thick, epithecium brownish, hymenium of conglutinate paraphyses, I+ intensely and persistently blue, hypothecium pale, asci 8-spored, ascospores hyaline, not well-developed in the type material; on shaded granitic rocks; the taxonomic position of this species awaits clarification (see Nimis 1993: 206).
