HI,

I found this pyrenomycet on the bark of a branch of Picea abies which was lying on the ground. Conspicuous are first of all the two-layered ascomata with a thick, carbonaceous layer covering a thin, greyish perithecium.
The ascomata were smooth, black, tiny, superficial and opening by a small pore. The spores are smooth, 17-19.5 x 3,5-4 µm, three-septate, filled with many little oil drops when living, when dead there are fewer but bigger oil drops. The asci are 44-48 x 10-12 µm, 8-spored and unitunicate with a slightly refractive apical apparatus (see the arrows). Paraphyses are present and up to 1.5 µm wide.
I would be very thankful if you could help me.

Best wishes,

Gernot