Echinosphaeria canescens

External hairs with pointed apices, smooth, brown, very thick-walled, slightly paler to subhyaline at the apex.

Asci cylindrical, attenuated at the base and apex, with a minute amyloid apical apparatus in Melzer's reagent.

Paraphyses filiform, very slender, hyaline, septate, projecting slightly above the asci.

Ascospores allantoid, slightly geniculate, with somewhat pointed ends, smooth, moderately thick-walled, hyaline, with vacuolar content.

Herbarium material available: JTP2130/24.