SPOROCARPS: stalked, scattered to gregarious some times united by their fused stalks and accruing in digitate clasters of 2 -20 sporangia 0.3 - 0.4 mm tall. Sporotheca ovate to cylindrical, usually tapering towards the apex, pale grey to light brown, ochraceous or sometimes yellowish brown, 0.1 - 0.8 mm in diameter.
STALK: slender, pallid or black up to 2 mm length. Hypothallus discoid or contiguous for a group of sporangia, transparent and often not evident.
PERIDIUM: persisting as a shallow calycus in mature fruiting bodies only, with a smooth, delicately stippled, finely reticulate inner surface.
CAPILLITIUM: consisting of a network of threads 2 - 6 µm in diameter and densely covered with small blunt spines (occasionally also with cogs, bands or reticulations), firmly attached to the calyculus.
SPORES: Pale grey or light yellow in mass, colourless by transmitted light, with a few scattered warts 6 - 7µm in diameter.
PLASMODIUM: White less often grey or pale yellow.
HABITAT: Decaying wood, leaf litter and dung.
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland , Buller, Canterbury , Coromandel, Dunedin , Northland and Southland.
NOTES: This species has two diffrent forms ovate or cylindrical and two diffrent colours grey or ochraceous.
Ovate, ochraceous fruiting body's showing the capillitium, notice the scatted spores on the substrate.
Ovate, ochraceous fruiting body's showing the capillitium, notice the scatted spores on the substrate.