Hello forummembers,

I found several FRB's in two different places (distance +/- 500 m) on the dried banks of two different brooks
a) 24/06/2015 Staatsbos Sevendonk Turnhout, Belgium
b) 26/06/2015 Winkelsbroek Turnhout, Belgium

Macroscopic features:

Substrate: found on the dried banks of two brooks on a muddy soil full of plants and herbal roots (a = bare soil, b = soil full of leaf litter).
FRB: sessile, flat to cushion-shaped with diameter smaller than 5 mm; dark yellow to orange colored with a jagged edge slightly paler, alone or in bundles (squeezed together)

Microscopic features (all dimensions in water): fresh material in water and in Melzer.

asci : cylindrical, uniseriate; IKI-; croziers present
a) 267,47-294,88 x 15,04-23,32 µm
b) 217,36-261,03 x 15,26-24,11 µm

spore: hyaline, globose tot broadly ellipsoid with spines:

a) 16,23-17,64 x 13,23-16,14 µm; spines: 1,79-3,42 µm; Q= 1.016
b) 15,93-18,91 x 17,03-18.06 µm; spines: 2,89-4,37 µm; Q= 1.11

Paraphyses : 320 x 5.8 µm, top irregular clavate (8-12 µm) with pale orange content; slender, filiform with septs

Texture: globulosa, angularis
Marginal cells: 147-170 x 21-30 µm; elongated cells with 5 septs, constricted en rounded top.

After reading about the genus Ramsbottomia (Dieter Benkert, Nicolas Van Vooren and Yannick Mourgues, I think it is Ramsbottomia crechqueraultii.
Being an amateur I am somewhat confused. The difference between globose and broadly ellipsoid, the difference in spore length of 1 to 4 µm is susceptible to interpretation. Furthermore in Mycobank the current name is Lamprospora...
I hope I have got the right determination? I still have to learn much and accept that not everything is clarified!

Kind regards,

François