Hemitrichia decipiens

On wet decaying ground wood, formerly known as Trichia decipiens, with stipitate sporocarps, scattered or in small clusters, total height 1.5 to 3 mm, with a pyriform sporotheca, 0.5 to 1.2 mm in diameter, reddish to dark brown, with a dark brown to almost black stipe, 0.5 to 1.5 mm long, with a simple peridium and irregular or circumscissile apical dehiscence.

Capillitium yellow under the microscope, with sinuous elaters 6 to 7 µm wide, with 3 to 5 spiral bands, and with very long pointed free ends that gradually taper, up to 100 µm long.

Spores subglobose, pale yellow under the microscope, 11 to 13 µm long by 11 to 12 µm wide, ornamented with isolated warts that outline a faint reticulum.

Herbarium material available: JTP2646/25 and JTP2784/26.