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 species of the former Hypocenomyce anthracophila-group, with a thallus consisting of ascending, usually proliferating squamules reacting Pd-, the concolorous margins being sorediate, and with compound, dark-brown apothecia (but rarely fertile); lignicolous, usually on charred wood; rather common in the boreal zone, but rare in the Alps, having so far been reported only from the Western Alps (France).
