Tubifera ferruginosa

On decaying dead wood on the ground, with sessile, pulvinate pseudoaethalia, 0.5 to 10 cm across, with sessile, connate, cylindrical sporocarps, 0.4 to 0.7 mm in diameter by 3 to 6 mm tall, orange to brown, and with a simple peridium with apical dehiscence.

Watery plasmodium, turning from white to pink with development.

Without columella.

Without capillitium.

Spores globose, orange-yellow under the microscope, 6 to 7.5 µm in diameter, ornamented with warts that merge to form a complete reticulum, except in the germ pore area.