Altitudinal range: from the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron) to the alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)
Note: a species with a whitish, granular thallus delimited by a white prothallus, small, sessile, black, first plane then convex and immarginate apothecia with a brown epithecium and a black hypothecium, coeherent paraphyses, 8-spored asci, and 1-3-septate, fusiform ascospores measuring c. 9 × 3 µm; only known from the type material, collected on terricolous mosses over granite above Bormio (Italy).
