Mycelium white, scanty, spreading over the substrate. Perithecia solitary or in groups of a few, orange, glabrous or hirsute, urniform, (155-) 190-220 (-230) µm high x (200-) 247-270 (-375) µm wide, becoming collabent when dry, not changing colour in 3% potassium hydroxide. Perithecial wall 15-25 (-40) µm thick. Surface view: cells prosenchymatous, walls 1-2 µm thick. Longitudinal section: cells elliptical, 5-7 µm long x 2-4 µm wide, walls 1-2 µm thick, cells becoming progressively more flattened and thin-walled toward the interior. Perithecial hairs lacking or composed of from one to several fasciculate hyphae, 10-70 wm long, 20-40 µm wide basally, orange to brown; hyphae unbranched, septate, 3-5 µm wide with walls c. 1 µm thick, arising from the surface of the perithecial wall. Perithecial papilla lacking or very short, composed of narrow hyphal elements arising from the inner region of the perithecial wall; ostiolar canal periphysate. Asci broadly cylindrical to clavate, 37-58 x 6-8 (-10) µm, 8-spored; apices flat, with a ring; bases rounded; ascospores obliquely uniseriate, becoming irregularly arranged, forming throughout the length. Ascospores fusiform-ellipsoidal, (7-) 8-11 (-13) x 3-4 µm, equally 2-celled, 2 drops in each cell, striate, non-constricted or slightly constricted at the septum, hyaline.

CHARACTERISTICS IN CULTURE CMD: Ascospores germinating overnight, one, short germ tube arising from one end of each ascospore. Colonies 1.5-2.0 cm diam., translucent to opaque, white to pale pink, aerial mycelium loose, abundant pink to salmon slime on the surface of the colony, margin entire to slightly undulate, aromatic, medium non-pigmented. ME: 1 cm or less diam., opaque, pink to salmon, aerial mycelium loose or forming poorly developed, hyphal, rope-like strands, abundant pink to salmon slime on the surface of the colony, margin undulate, aromatic, medium non-pigmented. OA: 1.5-2.5 cm diam., opaque; yellow to salmon in the centre, white elsewhere; aerial mycelium as erect, outwardly directed, hyphal, rope-like strands, margin undulate, aromatic, medium non-pigmented. WAS: 2 cm diam., translucent, aerial mycelium sparse, white, margin entire, non-aromatic, medium non-pigmented. Phialophores arising on CMD, ME, OA, and WAS from the surface of the agar and from the aerial mycelium; monophialidic, unbranched, aseptate, straight, smooth, 49-57 µm long, 2.5-3 µm wide basally, subtending hypha 1.5-2 µm wide. A solitary phialide constituting the terminal 44-52 µm of each phialophore, 1-1.5 µm wide at the unflared tip. Conidial production abundant. Phialoconidia ellipsoidal to cylindrical, 5-7 x 1.5-2 µm, unicellular, hyaline, lacking a basal abscission scar. Arising in basipetal succession, held in a solitary pink to salmon (on CMD, ME, and OA) or hyaline (on WAS) drop of liquid.