Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species with rather short (less than 1 mm tall), dark brown to black, shiny stalks, and black, lenticular to hemispherical capitula, the stalk of interwoven hyphae, with a hyaline centre and a reddish- to greenish brown outer layer, ascospores medium brown, ellipsoid, distinctly 1-septate (c. 6-7.5 × 2.5 µm); lichenicolous on the thallus of Chaenotheca species, or on algal colonies; based on a type from Tasmania and more common in Australasia; in the Alps only recorded from Central Switzerland.
