SPORANGIA: total height 2 to 5 mm globose, stipitate, erect, gregarious, 0. 5 to 1 mm. diam., steel-blue, iridescent.
PERIDIUM: membranous, somewhat persistent, purplish or fuliginous.
STALK: subulate or cylindrical, 1 to 5 mm. long, black, rising from a well-developed hypothallus.
COLUMELLA: cylindrical, obtuse, about half the height of the sporangium.
CAPILLITIUM: black or cinereous, spreading chiefly from the upper part of the columella, threads stout, sparingly forked and anastomosing, colourless and slender at the tips.
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SPORES: Dark grey, echinulate with black spines, 15 to 20 µm diam.
Plasmodium: ? | HABITAT: On dead wood.
DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Fiordland and Dunedin. |
