Hi to all

Last week-end we have collected these small, gregarious, pale witish or amber (when old), subturbinate or shortly stipitate up to 1mm high and 0.7 mm broad ascomata growing on male cones of Pinus radiata lying on the wet ground. It seems to have any blackened stromatized zones at their insertion on the host.

The hymenium is never convex but it is plane to slightly concave.

The ascospores are smooth, broadly fusiform and they seem to have 1 nucleus.
Asci with croziers, 8-spored, with an apical apparatus weakly euamyloid, very difficult to observe and I don't know their type (Sclerotinia-type, Hymenoscyphus-type?) .. Living paraphyses with many rounded Vb's, hyaline to yellowish.

Ectal excipulum is built by roundish to vesicular cells in a tetura globulosa-subangularis. No hairs in the apothecial margin; only cilyndrical to subclabvate elements with the same Vb's.


I think perhaps this fungus belongs to the Sclerotiniaceae or Helotiaceae. I'm not sure...
Many thanks for help me

Enrique