Microglossum truncatum

General: Clavate ascocarp 2.5-6 cm high, with a fertile head and sterile stipe, bluish-green with pale cream fertile portion, smooth surface, occurring among moss in damp woods.

Excipulum: Medullary excipulum of textura intricata, hyaline, densely interwoven; ectal excipulum of shorter parallel cells forming a textura globoso-angularis.

Asci: Cylindrical, 8-spored, inoperculate, 80-100 x 8-10 µm, biseriate to irregular in upper half, apical apparatus amyloid in Melzer's or Lugol's.

Paraphyses: Filiform, very slender, septate, 1-2 µm wide, apices slightly swollen up to 2.5 µm, branched from the base.

Ascospores: Ellipsoid to fusiform, some slightly allantoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 12-18 x 4-5 µm, containing one or more oil guttules.

Herbarium voucher: JTP2740/26.