Summary:
Also listed in Cups category. Ascocoryne cylichnium is not normally considered with Jelly fungi (it is an ascomycete). Features include 1) a top-shaped to disc-shaped or cup-shaped fruitbody that is purple to pink and gelatinous, 2) stem lacking or short, 3) tightly clustered growth on wood, and 4) microscopic characters including ascospores 18-30 microns long that are multiseptate. Breitenbach(1) say it can be separated from Ascocoryne sarcoides only by the spore size, and gives the same macroscopic description for both species, word for word.

Microscopic:
spores 20-24 x 5.5-6 microns, elliptic, smooth, colorless, with several septa when ripe, often with small secondary spores, with droplets when young; asci 8-spored, 209-220 x 10-12, biseriate, amyloid; paraphyses filiform [thread-like], tips with clavate thickening up to 4 microns, (Breitenbach), spores 18-30 x 4-6 microns, becoming multiseptate and budding off spherical secondary spores while still in the ascus, (Dennis), spores 18-30 x 4-6 microns, fusoid [spindle-shaped], "multiseptate and bud off secondary spores while still in the ascus"; ascus 200-220 x 10-12 microns, (Phillips), spores 18-33 x 4-6 microns, narrowly elliptic, multiseptate, often developing small globose conidia already in the ascus, (Hansen)

Notes:
Phillips says "Common. Found in the Pacific Northwest and probably other areas." It is also found in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, (Hansen), and Switzerland, (Breitenbach). There are collections from BC at the University of British Columbia.

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Phaeocyphellopsis ochracea (Hoffm.) W.B. Cooke
Solenia ochracea Hoffm.