Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)
Note: a species with an epilithic thallus consisting of adpressed, roundish squamules (1-3 mm in diam.), several immersed ascomata per squamule (to 0.25 mm in diam.), an involucrellum adpressed to the perithecial wall in the upper third, 2-spored asci, and colourless, oblong, muriform ascospores with 7-13 transversal and up to 3 longitudinal septa (to 45 µm long); on schist; only known from the Western Alps (Italy).
