Echinostelium apitectum
Sporocarps, scattered or gregarious, 100-211.2-350 µm high, stalked, when fresh, hyaline or white (263. White) or grayish yellowish pink (32. gy. y Pink) or pale cinnamom; sporotheca globose, 30-48.75-65 µm in diam.Hypothallus inconspicuous.Stalk present, 70-171.2-290 µm long, 1-2.125-3 µm diam at the apex, 10-16.25-22 µm diam at the base, arising from a arising from a non expanded base, slightly flexousus, tapering to the apex, translucent, under transmitted light hyaline or pale yellow (89. p.Y) or strong yellow (84. s. Y), filled, with granular material, up to 1/2 or 2/3, or more.Peridium persisting bassally, when mature, as a collar or a saucer-shaped calyculus, 3-5.625-10 µm in diam.Capillitium absent or rudimentary, made of solid threads or absent. Columella present or absent, flattened or conical or cylindrical or fusiform or pedunculate-hemispheric, 0-2.25-4.5 µm long, under transmitted light light brown (57. l. Br) or black (267. Black).Spores free, in mass, hyaline or yellowish white (92. y. White), under transmitted light hyaline or grayish yellowish pink (32. gy. y Pink) or faintly cinnamon or light olive gray (112. l. Ol Gy), globose, 6-8.687-12 µm in diam., minutely, roughened or smooth; spore ornamentation regularly, evenly distributed; spore wall of uniform thickness; spore-like body present.
On bark of living trees (Juniperus, Olea)