Bonjours tous
venant d'une Angleterre très chaude et très sèche dans la plupart des habitats dans ce domaine . . . . (tout le monde est heureux, je le suis moins!)
I am really determined to try to get to grips with Orbilia from now on and would welcome any help and suggestions during my struggle.

Here is an apricot-coloured collection, found on rather dry decorticated Quercus wood (at a late stage of decay, Nemania confluens close by).

Classic capitate paraphyses (many pigmented) with granular extracellular pigment also (first image).

The asci seem to contain two types of spores (next three images) - I wondered for a long time about Helicogonium but am unsure - are these spores just immature, or aborted, or?

Asci with 'normal' ascospores also present (see last three images). These spores vary from ovoid, through phaseoliform to reniform, so I am thinking Orbilia coccinella / eucalypti (spores small 2.5-3.5 x 1.7-2µm).
Am I well off the mark?

Cordialement
Chris