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Echinosteliales
Echinostelium
Nomenclature
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Order: EchinostelialesFamily: Echinosteliaceae
Media
SUMMARY
Sporocarps 20-183-550 µm high, stalked, when fresh, hyaline or white (263. White), or yellowish white (92. y White), bright yellow (83. brill. Y), or grayish yellowish pink (32. gy. y Pink), or when mature, white, yellowish or pinkish; sporotheca globose, 30-48.21-120 µm in diam. Stalk tapering to the apex, translucent; under transmitted light, hyaline, hollow, but usually filled with granular material in its lower part. Peridium evanescent but with a collar persistent when mature, rarelly with fragments clinging from capillitium tips, .Capillitium absent to well-developed and brached. Columella, when present, of various shapes, pigmented or not. Spores free, bright colored, globose, or subglobose; spore wall of uniform thickness. or with thickened articular surfaces.