Hello,

I have been struggling to identify this Cheilymenia (I suppose it is Cheilymenia at least :-))

Description: Apothecia orange-red with outer surface dotted with hairs, old ones often almost bald, size up to 2,2 mm.

Microscopical description: Hymenium about 230 – 260 µm thick. Hypothecium indisctincly differentiated. Excipulum seems differentiated to me as medullary layer is composed of smaller cells than those in outer excipulum, and also some inflated hyphae. Outer excipulum consists of globose, elipsoid to angular thin walled cells that are quite strongly cyanophilous.

Asci cylindric, 180 – 240 x 12,5 – 16 µm, with usually 4,6 or 8 ascospores (rarely 2), others are aborted. Some of aborted ascospores are subglobose. Ascospores are uniseriate, elipsoid, 14,15 – 16,65 x 8,25 – 9,95 µm, Q = 1,69, seem almost smooth under light microscope to me when stained in tryptanblue or cotton blue in lactic acid without heating.

Paraphyses are septate, with variable shape, mostly with enlarged apex (8-11 µm), often with some moniliform parts, sometimes branched (mostly below, rarely above), containing orange substances.

There are light brown thick walled root germs on the margin. Lateral hairs are short (up to 250 µm), truncate or attenuate, mostly simple, sometimes bifurcate or rarely 3furcate, thick walled, with subacuminate to acumanite apex, sometimes lanceollate, light brown, apex sometimes hyaline.

Habitat and collection: on soil, but maybe mixed with dung, late autumn, elevation 525m, Czech Republic

Thank you in advance for your help
Honza