ascoma_color_hyaline
colourless
the hymenium arising from a yellow-brown subhymenium about 15-30 µm thick, composed of a poorly-defined textura intricata situated on the exciple, which is a layer of colourless, poorly-defined textura intricata embedded in mucus and about 100-200 µm thick; the blackened covering layer approximately 30-80 µm thick, composed for the most part of cells 5-12 µm diam., forming a textura angularis or globulosa with a dark brown pigment in the cell walls and between individual cells; these cells gradually intergrading via textura epidermoidea to become a textura oblita or intricata towards the torn edges of the covering layer; heavily-tanned tissue of the substratum present below the ascoma, and on the outside of the blackened covering layer
Zeus olympius
Zeus olympius