Cheilymenia stercorea  

Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: stromata absent. Ascomata apothecia, 2-5 mm diam., scattered or aggregated, sessile, shallowly cupulate to ± discoid, fleshy, the hymenium orange to orange-yellow, the external surface orange and scurfy, covered with yellow-brown dimorphic hairs. Marginal hairs 150-700 (-1000) x 10-25 µm, straight, spinose, the apex usually acuminate, thick-walled, septate, with a broad rooting base to ca 50 µm diam. Excipular hairs stellate, with (2-) 3-5 (-6) branches, the branches 40-160 (-180) x 6-15 µm, spinose. Peridium composed of globose thin-walled cells to 35 µm diam., with an inner layer of intertwined hyphae. Interascal tissue composed of unbranched paraphyses to 3.5 µm diam., containing orange carotenoid pigments, the apex clavate, to ca 6 µm diam. Asci 180-240 x 11-14 µm, cylindrical, with a tapering stalk, the apex rounded to truncate, fairly thin-walled, operculate, not staining in iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores arranged ± obliquely uniseriately, 16-22 (-24) x (8.5-) 9-12 µm, cylindric-ellipsoidal, aseptate, hyaline, smooth, fairly thin-walled, with an epispore that may become detached when warmed in lactic acid, and/or a gelatinous sheath.