Pirottaea brevipila  

Anamorph: not known.
Teleomorph: ascomata apothecia, erumpent and becoming ± superficial, scattered or in small clusters, 250-450 µm diam. and 100-150 µm high, black, appearing verrucose when dry. Exciple 20-25 µm thick at the base, slightly narrower towards the rim of the apothecium, composed of dark brown thin-walled angular to angular-globose cells 7-10 µm diam., tending to elongate towards the rim, with short dark brown opaque processes covering the upper part of the exciple and merging into short blunt irregular dark brown spines 20-30 µm in length and 4-5 µm diam. surrounding the grey disc. Interascal tissue of thin-walled hyaline paraphyses 1.5-2 µm diam., branched at the base, the apex not clearly differentiated. Asci 45-55 x 8-9.5 µm, cylindric-fusiform and tapering towards the ± acute apex, quite thin-walled, almost sessile, croziers not seen, not blueing in iodine, 8-spored. Ascospores arranged in a fascicle, 27-31 x 2.5-3 µm, narrowly fusiform-ellipsoidal, often slightly curved, 1- to 3-septate, hyaline, thin- and smooth-walled, without a gelatinous sheath.