Cheilymenia stercorea

Outer hairs straight, thick-walled, septate, with intracellular pigment and branched base; at their base are abundant shorter, stellate hairs with 3 to 5 rays (the hallmark characteristic defining the species).

Excipulum formed of hyaline, thin-walled hyphae of very large size, ranging from globose to slightly angular.

Asci cylindrical, uniseriate, 8-spored and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Paraphyses filiform, slightly widened at the apex, with orange intracellular pigment that turns greyish in Melzer's reagent.

Ascospores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, without oil content inside.

Herbarium material available: JTP2503/25.