Altitudinal distribution: alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)
Note: this species of uncertain affinity, characterised by a whitish, leprose-isidiose thallus, small, brown, convex apothecia with a dark hypothecium and lax paraphyses, and simple spores measuring 13-17 × 3-5 µm, is known only from the type collection above Bormio (Italy).
