Hyalorbilia inflatula

A very common Hyalorbilia with up to 7 collections studied.

Excipulum of textura prismatica, with roughly rectangular hyphae, arranged in parallel, hyaline and moderately thick-walled.

Asci cylindrical, 8-spored, with croziers at their base (croziers +), measuring 25-30 µm long by 3.5-4.5 µm wide, thin-walled, with biseriate to irregular spore arrangement, enveloped in a congophilic gel layer.

Paraphyses cylindrical, equal in length to the asci but narrower, with a width ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 µm.

Ascospores small, cylindrical to very slightly allantoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with rounded ends.

Herbarium material available: JTP2127/24.