Spheconisca austriaca Norman

Non- or doubtfully lichenised. Poorly known taxon.
Substrate: bark
Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)
Note: a doubtfully lichenised species, perhaps belonging to Chaetosphaeriales, with a blackish, subiculum-like, granular thallus, minute, globose ascomata containing 8-spored asci, and 1-septate, brown, oblong ascospores (to 18 µm long); on bark and wood of conifers (Pinus nigra); only known from the type locality in the Eastern Alps (Austria).
Austria: Tirol;