Summary: Features include 1) cushion-shaped to spread out cushion-shaped fruitbodies on aspen wood, 2) a white surface that is flat or with inconspicuous to conspicuous perithecial mounds, the openings dark, 3) orange granules situated immediately beneath surface and between perithecia, and KOH-extractable pigments colored orange, 4) spores that are elliptic-inequilateral, and brown, with a straight germ slit the length of the spore.
Microscopic: SPORES (14)15-19(20) x 5.5-8 microns, elliptic-inequilateral, with narrowly rounded ends, "brown to dark brown, unicellular", "with straight germ slit spore-length", "perispore indehiscent in 10% KOH", epispore smooth; ASCUS 140-170 microns x 8-11 microns total, the spore-bearing part 100-117 microns long, the stem 27-60 microns long, with apical ring blueing in Melzer''s reagent, discoid, 1.5-2 microns high and 3-4 microns broad; PERITHECIUM 200-400(500) microns in diameter, 200-500 microns high, spherical to obovoid, (Ju), SPORES 15-19 x 7.5-9 microns, inequilaterally elliptic, dark brown to opaque, uniseriate; ASCUS 8-spored, 90-120 x 12 microns in spore-bearing part, cylindric, with stem 15-40 microns long; PARAPHYSES present; PERITHECIUM 200-300 microns in diameter, spherical or conic, (Miller, J.H.)
Notes: Collections were examined from BC and NM, (Ju).
Habitat and Range
Habitat
two collections on barkless wood of Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen), (Ju), on dead wood (Miller, J.H.)
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names: Saccoblastia sebacea Bourdot & Galzin