Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species with an often reddish brown stalk and a greenish capitulum (both K-), stalk and exciple being composed of cylindrical to isodiametric hyphal cells, paraphyses with pigmented caps, and simple, broadly ellipsoid ascospores; on resin of conifers; based on a type from Western North America, widespread in the boreal zone; in the Alps so far only found on resin of Abies in Switzerland.
