Typhula micans

On decaying ground stems of grasses or umbellifers, with a pink fertile head or clāvula, total height 1 to 2.5 mm, with a short paler or translucent stipe, and without a sclerotium at the base.

Monomitic hyphal system with only generative hyphae arranged parallel, hyaline, thin-walled, 3 to 6 µm wide, septate with clamp connections.

Basidia subcylindrical to slightly clavate, 25 to 35 µm long by 5 to 7 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and mostly bisporic.

Spores ellipsoidal to almond-shaped (pip-shaped), smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 10 to 12 µm long by 4.5 to 6 µm wide, with slightly granular content inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.