Didymium eximium

Sporocarps stalked, gregarious, 1.5 mm total height. Sporothecae discoid, umbilicate, appearing irregular and often saddle-shaped, 0.3-0.8 mm diam., pale ochraceous or pale grey. Hypothallus discoid, brown, shining. Stalk without calcareous deposits, tapered, grooved, reddish-brown, by TL ochraceous or orange-ochraceous, darker towards the base. Peridium colourless or pale yellow, covered with white or pale ochraceous stellate crystals which are much smaller than the spores, with a thickened yellow basal plate. Pseudocolumella rough, ochraceous, seated on the basal plate. Capillitium sparse, the threads sparingly branched with few cross-connections, pale or dark, with some dark, broad expansions. Spore-mass dark brown. Spores pale lilac-brown, 9-10 µm diam., almost smooth but evenly warted with small pale warts, sometimes paler on one side. Plasmodium colourless to yellow. On leaf litter.