Cystodermella cinnabarina

Cellular cutis formed by subglobose hyphae up to 40 µm in diameter, with abundant ochraceous brown intracellular pigment; underneath, filamentous hyphae similarly pigmented and with clamped septa.

Cystidia not observed, although literature reports scattered cystidia resembling stinging hairs with apical crystals.

Basidia clavate, up to 20 µm long, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to ovoid, smooth, moderately thick-walled, with an inconspicuous eccentric apiculus, vacuolar content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.