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: thallus ash-grey, K+ intensely brownish red, warty, on a pale prothallus, apothecia of various sizes, frequent or scattered, with a brown, flat disk, and a rather thick, wavy-wrinkled, indented, permanent margin, spores 8 per ascus, simple, ellipsoidal-spindle-shaped, 12-14 µm long. This species, which probably belongs to Protoparmelia, is known only from the type collection.
