Maronella laricina M. Steiner

Lichenised.
Substrate: bark
Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a species with an inconspicuous thallus, abundant and minute, rusty-brown, lecanorine apothecia reacting K+ purple, and polyspored asci with an amyloid tholus; on eutrophicated bark of solitary trees (e.g. Larix) next to manured meadows or along roadsides; apparently a rare species, so far only reported from Austria and Spain, with a few records from the the Eastern Alps.
Austria: Tirol;