Syn.: Involucrothele ligurica Servít non Verrucaria ligurica Zschacke quid est Hydropunctaria ligurica (Zschacke) Cl. Roux
Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.
Substrate:
Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)
Note: a species with an olive-coloured, epilithic, rimose to areolate thallus forming patches to 3 cm in diam., the areoles with a verruculose surface, protruding ascomata (to 0,4 mm in diam.), an involucrellum adpressed to the perithecial wall and reaching down to the base of the perithecium, and oblong to ellipsoid, simple ascospores intermixed with c. 10-20% 1-septate ones (to c. 15 µm long); only known from the type locality at the base of the Western Alps (Italy), on a wall.
