Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species resembling V. glaucovirens, with a thin, rimulose, greenish thallus, hemispherically protruding ascomata (to 0.2 mm in diam.), an involucrellum adpressed to the perithecial wall and reaching down about one third of the perithecium (fide Servít), and oblong to ellipsoid, minute ascospores (to c. 12 µm long); on calcareous rocks in shaded situations; rarely recorded in Europe, including the Western Alps (France).