Trichia varia

On wet decaying ground wood, with sessile to sub-stipitate sporocarps, with subglobose or subcylindrical sporothecae, 0.6 to 1.2 mm in diameter, yellowish-brown, with allantoic plasmodiocarps up to 2 mm, with a very short or absent stipe, and a simple peridium with irregular apical dehiscence.

Capillitium yellow under the microscope, with elaters 4 to 6 µm in diameter, with 2 to 3 broad spiral bands, sparsely branched and with pointed free ends 10 to 20 µm long.

Spores subglobose, very pale yellow under the microscope, practically hyaline, 12 to 14 µm long by 12 to 13.5 µm wide, ornamented with numerous warts irregularly arranged over their entire surface.

Herbarium material available: JTP2133/24 and JTP2588/25.