Altitudinal range: from the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers) to the nival belt (above the lower limit of perennial snow and glaciers)
Note: a species with a thick, well-delimited, verrucose-areolate, brown thallus, dark brown, sessile, presumably lecanorine apothecia becoming convex and immarginate, a yellowish hypothecium, conglutinate paraphyses with a brown cap, 8-spored asci, and simple ellipsoid ascospores with a thin episporium, measuring 13-15 × c. 7 µm; only known from the type collection (on mica-schist at high elevation), and well worthy of further study. Wrongly reported from Switzerland by Stizenberger, Lichenes Helvetici (1882-1883): the cited locality is in Italy.
