Micarea misella (Nyl.) Hedl.

Syn.: Biatora misella (Nyl.) H.G. Falk, Lecidea anomala Ach. f. misella Nyl., Lecidea asserculorum Ach. nom. nud., Lecidea globularis (Nyl.) Lamy, Lecidea melanochroza Leight. ex Cromb., Lecidea misella (Nyl.) Nyl., Micarea globularis (Nyl.) Hedl.
Lichenised.
Substrate: lignum, living mosses, bark, plant debris
Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a cool-temperate to circumboreal-montane species found on lignum, more rarely on acid bark; widespread throughout the Alps.
Austria: Vorarlberg; Tirol; Salzburg; Kärnten; Steiermark; Oberösterreich; Niederösterreich (incl. Wien); Germany: Oberbayern; Switzerland: Bern; Luzern; Schwyz; Unterwalden; Valais; France: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence; Haute-Alpes; Alpes-Maritimes; Isère; Haute-Savoie; Vaucluse; Var; Italy: Friuli; Trentino Alto Adige; Lombardia; Slovenia: Alpine and Pre-Alpine Slovenia;