Calycina citrina

Medullary excipulum of textura intricata, with filamentous hyphae interwoven.

Ectal excipulum of textura globoso-angularis.

Asci cylindrical, 8-spored, with a faint amyloid reaction of their apical apparatus.

Paraphyses very slender, filiform, very slightly widened at the tip, where they present a yellowish pigment responsible for their attractive colour.

Ascospores cylindrical-ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with two large oil droplets inside, one at each end, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2572/25.