Micarea nigella Coppins
Lichenised.
Substrate: lignum, bark
Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species with an endoxylic thallus, black apothecia, stalked pycnidia, and a purple-brown pigment reacting K+ green in epihymenium, hypothecium and pycnidial wall; on wood, mostly in boreal-montane coniferous forests; widespread in Europe, with a single record from the Western Alps (Switzerland).
Switzerland: Unterwalden;
