PDD 48182.

Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, scattered, 1–2 mm tall. Sporotheca globose, 0.3–0.4 mm in diameter. Stalk relatively long, usually at least two-thirds of the total height, slender, nearly cylindrical, black or dark brown. Hypothallus discoid, black. Columella cylindrical, truncate, not exceeding the center of the sporotheca. Peridium persistent, metallic silvery, blue or bronze iridescent. Capillitium dense, consisting of rigid, straight, sparingly branched and anastomosing threads with numerous free ends, branches of the capillitium pallid or colourless as they leave the columella, elsewhere brown. Spores brown in mass, violet-grey by transmitted light, regularly and distinctly warted, 7–9 µm in diameter. Plasmodium watery white.

Although reported as probably cosmopolitan by Farr (1976), this species appears to be absent from high latitudes (Stephenson et al. 2000). First reported from New Zealand by Rawson (1937), based on a specimen from Dunedin.

Dead leaves; less common on wood, dung, and other types of plant debris.

Martin & Alexopoulos (1969), Nannenga-Bremekamp (1991), Stephenson & Stempen (1994), Neubert et al. (2000).

Lamproderma scintillans is the only nonalpine species of Lamproderma that is likely to be found on litter.