Verrucaria despecta Servít

Lichenised. Poorly known taxon.
Substrate: calciferous rocks
Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)
Note: a calcicolous species with a whitish, epilithic, rimose to areolate thallus forming patches to 3 cm in diam. (the areoles with a minutely verruculose surface), hemispherically protruding ascomata (to 0.2 mm in diam.) mostly arising inbetween or at the edges of the areoles, an involucrellum adpressed to the perithecial wall and reaching down about half of the perithecia, and oblong to ellipsoid ascospores (to c. 15 µm long); only known from the type locality at the base of the Western Alps (Italy).
Italy: Liguria;