DWM 5499

Fruiting body a stalked sporangium, scattered or gregarious, 100–350 µm tall. Sporotheca globose, erect or nodding, pale pink or white, 30–65 µm in diameter. Stalk translucent, white or pale yellow, 70–290 µm long. Hypothallus inconspicuous. Peridium not persisting in mature fruiting bodies except as a collar at the base of the sporotheca. Columella a short peg-like structure enclosed in a globose, spore-like covering. Capillitium absent. Spores pale pink or pale tan in mass, colourless to pale pink or pale grey by transmitted light, more or less smooth, 6–10 µm in diameter. Plasmodium colourless.

Reported from Africa (Ing 1999), Asia (Yamamoto 1998), Australia (Mitchell 1995), Europe (Lado & Pando 1997), and North America (Whitney 1980), but never common. Not reported in print as occurring in New Zealand but appearing in moist chamber culture on bark samples from an unidentified tree. The bark samples were collected in Auckland.

Bark of living trees

Whitney (1980), Lado & Pando (1997), Ing (1999).