Altitudinal range: from the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies) to the subalpine belt (potential vegetation: open, taiga-like forests dominated by Larix decidua and/or Pinus cembra and Rhododendron)
Note: a species recalling a discoloured M. misella, with an endosubstratic (mostly endoxylic) thallus, brown apothecia (rarely present), their pigment not reacting with K or C, oblong to ovoid, usually simple to 1-septate ascospores, sessile to stalked pycnidia (often present) with a pale to brownish base and a brown wall, and oblong mesoconidia; on decorticated wood in coniferous forests; widespread in Europe but rather rare, with a single record from the Western Alps (Switzerland).
