Good evening to all,

After several microscopic examinations, I found a saucer-shaped, shiny, pitch-black fruiting body among the leftover debris. It looked like a piece of black plastic. Apparently all parts (spore, asci, paraphyses, excipulum) were coated with a black pigment. Even the smell was very special, it reminded me of dark chocolate, five years after its expiry date!
I could not remember where I had found it, and the dish seemed damaged and not really fresh. Paraphyses and asci seemed to be sticking together.

Could this be Trichophaea abundans (the black form)?

Any help is appriciated,

François Bartholomeeusen

FRB: diameter +/- 20 mm
Spores: (19.2) 20.7-23.4 (23.6)×(10.8) 11-12.3 (13.1) µm; Me = 22.1 × 11.7 µm; Qe = 1.9;
Asci: 250 x 18 µm;
Paraphyses: filiform, sometimes branches at the top;
Hairs at the margin: 370 x 16 µm; excipular hairs: 150 x15 µm;
Anchor hyfen: with croziers
IKI: no reaction