Altitudinal distribution: submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus)
Note: a silicicolous species with an epilithic, grey, continuous to areolate thallus, the areoles smooth to minutely verruculose and with minute dark maculae, hemispherically protruding ascomata (to 0.4 mm in diam.), an involucrellum adpressed to the perithecial wall und reaching down to the base of the perithecium, and oblong to ellipsoid ascospores (to c. 25 µm long); only known from the type locality at the base of the Western Alps (Italy).
