Vainio, E. (1909). Lichenes in viciniis stationis hibernae expeditionis Vegae prope pagum Pitlekai in Sibiria septentrionali a Dre. E. Almquist collecti. Praefationem scripsit F. Almquist. Arkiv for Botanik, Band 8, No. 4: 43.
Specimen a cel. Almquist collected a f. obscuriore Wain., Adj. Lich. Lapp. I p. 163, I reaction differs. Apothecia dark brown/grayish-brown-blackish, naked, margin dark brown/grayish-brown-blackish eventually excluded. Excipulum contains cystococcaceous gonidia. Hymeinum I persistently bluish or asci eventually dark violetish. Paraphyses apices dark brown/grayish-brown-clavate, covered by thin, gelatinous, hyaline layer above. Epithecium HNO3 violetish. Spores ellipsoid or oblong, 8, distichous, hyaline, simple, 0.006-0.010 millim. long, 0.008 millim. thick. Thallus obsolete.
Attached to wood on island Idlidlja near pag. Tjapka. Fert.