Catinella olivacea

Excipular hyphae heavily pigmented, thick-walled and of textura globoso-angularis.

Asci cylindrical, uniseriate, 8-spored, with an amyloid reaction of their apical apparatus.

Paraphyses filamentous, septate, slightly widened at the tip, and coated at this end by an amorphous mass with abundant greenish-yellow pigment.

Ascospores ellipsoidal, initially hyaline within the ascus, becoming pigmented with maturity; these mature spores are ellipsoidal, thick-walled, with abundant brown intracellular pigment and two large lipid droplets inside.

Herbarium material available: JTP2593/25.