Spheconisca hypocrita Norman

Non- or doubtfully lichenised. Poorly known taxon.
Substrate: bark
Altitudinal distribution: montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)
Note: a doubtfully lichenised species with a spreading, black, rough, rather thick, subiculum-like thallus, the rather small ascomata containing 8-spored asci and hyaline to brownish, fusiform, 3-septate to submuriform ascospores (12-13 μm long); on branches of Larix, only known from the type locality in the Eastern Alps (Austria).
Austria: Tirol;