fruiting body_color_hyaline
<ascoma> colourless
located beneath the leaf cuticle and above strongly tanned epidermal and mesophyll cells; upper wall up to 120 µm thick, composed of more-or-less globose cells 5-7 µm diam. with pigmented walls forming a textura globulosa or angularis, thicker nearer the split, becoming a little thinner, but remaining black towards the edge of the ascoma, not obviously lined with pale lip cells at the split; no blackened lower wall observed; exciple similar to and intergrading with the stromatal tissues, arising directly from the tanned epidermal cells, composed of colourless cells forming a well-defined and strongly gelatinized textura intricata, up to about 130 µm deep; subhymenium arising from the top of the exciple, composed of colourless, thin-walled cells forming a poorly-defined textura angularis about 30 µm deep
Placuntium andromedae
Placuntium andromedae