Species: Paradiachea caespitosa

Description:

I am not to sure if I have this one named right the lack of a peridium is odd. This seams to be a rear species world wide and there is some confusion over both the name and weather it has a peridium or not. SPORANGIA: Caespitose or crowded, sessile or with very short stalks, clavate, cylindrical, dark. PERIDIUM: Silvery, iridescent with blue or bronze reflections, tending to persist or not (depending on who's description used), especially below. STALK: 1-1.5 mm tall, 0.5 mm diam. HYPOTHALLUS: Delicate, yellowish, inconspicuous. COLUMELLA: Tubular, attaining 65-75% the height of the sporotheca. CAPILLITIUM: Blackish, arising from the entire length of the columella, forming a moderately dense network, with numerous free tips.
SPORES: Pale brownish violet, somewhat irregularly spinose, 10-13 µm diam. PLASMODIUM: White	HABITAT: On dead wood. DISTRIBUTION: Cosmopolitan, known from Auckland.

Macro images:

Scale = 0.75 mm.

Scale = 0.75 mm.

Scale = 1.5 mm.

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