Pseudoboubovia benkertii  

Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, 1-8 mm diam., sessile, smooth, at first convex, later becoming discoid, sometimes irregular in form in old fruit-bodies. Hymenium bright yellow [lemon yellow, greenish yellow or orange yellow in non-GBI material]. Margin not or slightly raised, smooth, sometimes irregularly wavy or incurved, concolorous with the hymenium.  Exciple with an outer layer of thin-walled globose hyaline cells mixed with swollen hyphae, and an inner layer of thin-walled hyaline intertwined hyphae. Interascal tissue of copious filiform septate paraphyses containing yellow or orange granules which do not stain green with iodine, the apical part distinctly curved, not swollen. Asci 220−260 × (10−) 13-14.5 μm, cylindrical, with a long tapering stalk, thin-walled, not fissitunicate, the apex not or only marginally thickened, obtuse to truncate, operculate, not blueing in iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores arranged uniseriately, (14.5−) 16-17.5 (−19) × (8-) 9−10.5 (-11) μm, ellipsoidal or rhomboid-ellipsoidal, the apices rounded to almost truncate, hyaline or pale yellowish, containing many small refractive droplets, thick-walled, smooth, gelatinous sheath not seen.