Apothecia subgregaria, superficialia, stipitata, patelliformiter explanata, disco atro,. 1-1.5 mm. lato, excipulo brunneo, pilis rectis, cylindraceis, apice rotundatis, septatis, scabriusculis, hyalinis, 50-60 x 3-4 µ hirsuto. Asci cylindracei, octospori, 120 x 8-9 µ, apice jodo coerulescentes; ascosporae bacillares, rectae vel curvatae, hyalinae, 35-45 x 1.5 µ; paraphyses cuspidatae, vix prominentes, media 3 µ cr.

Durieu's figure of Peziza phaeotricha (in Expl. Sci. Algerie, Bot. tab. 28, fig. 5A) gives a good idea of the macroscopic appearance of D. melanophthalmus but Durieu's fungus was on leaves of Quercus ilex. The hairs of Dingley 18981 bear a reddish-brown gummy secretion at their tips and the colour of the receptacle varies from light brown to deep red-brown according to the quantity of this exudate. The excipulum is composed of thin-walled, hyaline, prismatic cells and the disc, black when dry, appears reddish-brown when soaked up. D. javanicus Penz. & Sacc. differs in its fusiform ascospores 16-22 x 2-2.5 µ.

In ligno emortuo Nothofagi, Tararua ranges, Wellington, April 1950, P.D.D. No. 18981 (typus).

[Notes from Kew Type specimen, PRJ 2010] Kew images.