Hyaloscypha daedaleae

On decorticated decaying oak wood on the ground.

Marginal hairs hyaline, slender, with slightly roughened walls and pointed apices.

Ectal excipulum hyphae of textura prismatica, with roughly rectangular hyphae, parallelly arranged, hyaline and moderately thick-walled.

Asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, with croziers at their base and an amyloid reaction of their minute apical apparatus.

Paraphyses filiform, cylindrical, septate, hyaline, up to just over 1.5 µm wide, projecting slightly above the asci.

Ascospores cylindric-ellipsoidal, with one end more pointed, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with only faint vacuolar internal content.

Herbarium material available: JTP2495/25.