Altitudinal distribution: alpine belt (potential vegetation: treeless Alpine grasslands and tundras, to the lower limit of perennial snow and the equilibrium line of glaciers)
Note: a species resembling V. dolomitica, with a very thin, epilithic, greyish to brownish, minutely granulose to flattened-verruculose thallus, black, hemispherically protruding ascomata (to c. 0.4 mm in diam.), an involucrellum adpressed in the upper third, and ellipsoid ascospores (to 35 µm long); on dolomite, only known from the type locality in the Eastern Alps (Austria).
