Habitat: woodlands

Substrate: rotten stumps, fallen logs, and branches

Spores: Late summer and fall

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Edibility: not edible

not edible

Spores are white (18-30 x 4-6 um), mltiseptate at maturity, smooth, biseriate, hyaline, and sometimes forming one to several tiny secondary spores. Asci are amyloid (205-220 x 10-12 um), paraphyses filiform, cylindrical, and unbranched. Fruitbody: Growth up to 1/8 inches. Cup diameter up to 1 inch. Ascocoryne sarcoides is generally smaller and less disc-shaped. Ascotrmella faginea is gelatinous and reddish purple, but forms fruitbodies that are brain-like, rather than disc-shaped.

Sources: Roberts, Peter and Evans, Shelley. The Book of Fungi. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2011. Beug, Michael W., Alan E. Bessette, and Arleen R. Bessette. Ascomycete Fungi of North America. Austin, University of Texas Print, 2014.