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 silicicolous species with a thin, whitish thallus, semi-immersed ascomata with a pigmented wall and a descending involucrellum, and hyaline, ovoid ascospores with 6-7 transversal septa and 3-4 longitudinal septa; only known from the type locality in the Western Alps (Switzerland).
