Scutellinia crinita

On plant debris on the ground or on decaying wood, with sessile, discoid to cupulate apothecia 0.5 to 1.3 cm across, reddish orange, with the margin fringed with brown hairs.

Marginal hairs multiseptate, thick-walled, straight to slightly curved, with a simple or bifurcate base, 700 to 1300 µm long and 28 to 40 µm wide.

Asci cylindrical, eight-spored, operculate, 200 to 280 µm long, 15 to 22 µm wide, with uniseriate spore arrangement inside the ascus, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Paraphyses filiform, septate, branched, 2.5 to 3.5 µm wide, with apical enlargements of the terminal cell reaching 8 to 11 µm.

Ascospores ellipsoidal, hyaline, with warts up to 1.2 µm high, 16 to 19 µm long, 11 to 13 µm wide, ornamented with warts coalescing into short ridges.

Herbarium material available: JTP1986/23.