Hyaloscypha intacta

Found in a riverbed on unidentified broadleaf wood.

Marginal hairs very short and difficult to observe, hyaline, very slightly roughened, with pointed apices.

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

Asci cylindric-clavate, 8-spored, with biseriate to irregular spore arrangement occupying almost the entire ascus, with croziers at their base, lacking an amyloid apical reaction (inamyloid).

Paraphyses filiform, smooth, without swellings, up to 2.5 µm wide, with vacuolar internal content, barely projecting above the asci.

Ascospores cylindric-fusiform to slightly allantoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with abundant vacuolar internal content.

Herbarium material available: JTP2660/25.