Aurantiaca, sparsa, sessilis (1-4 mm.). Cupulis concavis, crispulis, subtus pallidiore, tenuibus. Ascis cylindraceis. Sporidiis linearibus (.008 x .003 mm.), utrinque rotundatis. Helotium crispulum, MSS. in Herb.

On wood. Maungaroa (211).

On wood, Maungaroa, Berggren 211 (type).

Apothecia scattered, superficial, cupshaped, sessile, orange coloured throughout, disc concave when dry, flat and 2.5 mm. diameter when soaked up. Asci cylindric-clavate, 70-75 x 5 µ, 8-spored, pore blued by Melzer's reagent; ascospores uniseriate, narrowly elliptical, 5-7 x 1.5-2 µ; paraphyses cylindrical, obtuse, 1-1.5 µ thick; marginal excipulum composed of small, short, prismatic cells 2 µ wide, in rows at a low angle to the surface; flesh of large, angular, thin-walled cells, 10-15 µ across, passing into a superficial zone of smaller rounded cells like those of an Encoelia. The yellow pigment is soluble in ammonia.

Clearly this is not a Pezizella in the restricted interpretation of von Höhnel but is more like his Orbiliopsis.

ad lignum. Maungaroa Novae Zelandiae.

Aurantiaca, sparsa, sessilis, 1-4 mm. lat.; cupulis concavis, crispulis, subtus pallidioribus, tenuibus; ascis cylindraceis; sporidiis linearibus, 8 x 3 utrinque rotundatis.