Picture taken on the 1st March 2008 near Villa Joana, Vallvidrera, Barcelona, in protected places, out of direct rain, on the soil, schists, Mediterranean climate.
Frequent in Catalonia sometimes with Epiphloea terrena.
Squamulous thallus, disperse, small, with immersed perithecia, very adpressed, in soil not or very few calcicole.
Rhizina connecting the different squamules ("cordons à aspect de rhizines, reliant les squamules" Likenoj translated by the Association Française de Lichénologie.
See Wirth et alter (2004) Líquenes, musgos y hepáticas, Edit. Omega, pag. 172.