Altitudinal distribution: subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a species very closely related to Schaereria cinereorufa, with a thick, verrucose, brownish-grey thallus, black apothecia containing easily separating paraphyses and narrowly cylindrical asci with uniseriate, globose ascospores; overgrowing silicicolous mosses in the subalpine to alpine belts; for the study area there is a single record from the Eastern Alps (Austria).
