Lachnopsis sp. "blechnum"

Apothecia with very long, flexuous white hairs, common on dead Blechnum leaves leaves.

Apothecia about 0.7 mm diam., stipitate, receptacle and stipe white, densely covered with white hairs, hymenium white to pale yellow when fresh. Hairs of two lengths; short hairs stiff, about 80 x 5-6 µm; long hairs flexuous, about 400 x 3-4 µm, both thin-walled and finely rounghened all over. Excipulum of short-cylindric to subglobose cells with thickened, agglutinated to gelatinous walls. Paraphyses sublanceolate, 2 µm diam., increasing to about 4-5 µm near apex, then tapering slightly to rounded apex, extending 10 µm beyond asci. Asci more or less cylindric, tapering gradually to broadly truncate apex, walls slightly thickened at apex, small amyloid pore toward inside of wall, 8-spored. Ascospores 26-35 x 2.5-3 µm, straight, radially symmetrical, tapering to acute ends, both ends the same shape, 0-septate, hyaline.