Summary:
Features include small hard blackish or greenish fruitbodies on Douglas-fir, without a stem or substipitate, and microscopic characters.

Microscopic:
primary ascospores 15-25 x 4-6 microns, elliptic-fusiform, colorless, several-septate to muriform, uniseriate, secondary ascospores 2.0-4.0 x 1.0-1.5 microns, cylindric to allantoid, one-celled, colorless; asci at first 8-spored, becoming multispored, (175)190-240(260) x (18)20-23(25) microns, cylindric, narrowed in lower part to a short stem, obtuse at top, at first with walls thickened and gelatinized, becoming thinner when mature; paraphyses 1.5-2.0 microns wide, filiform [thread-like], colorless, septate, simple or branched, the tips slightly swollen and embedded in a brownish gelatinous matrix, forming an epithecium; conidia 2.0-4.0 x 1.0-1.5 microns, cylindric to allantoid, one-celled, borne at tip and along sides of conidiophore; conidiophores lining the cavity of conidial fruitbody, 15-45 x 1.5-2.0 microns, filiform, septate, colorless, simple, (Groves)

Notes:
Collections were examined from BC, OR, and CA, (Groves). There are collections from BC at the Pacific Forestry Centre determined by A. Funk.