Hi Marc,

I think you have the good ol' Olla transiens here: spores <10 um, with two small +- polar (near each end) guttulae, multiseptate (or more than one anyway) hairs with dextrinoid apex (it's very modest -small in the long hairs, but observe the small hairs with huge glassy parts.

The ascus base is a bit of a mystery to me. I think there are records of "Olla transiens" with both with and without crozier. The morphological interpretation (if a crozier exists) is sometimes difficult especially if the crozier is inconspicious, but. yeah. maybe someone else can shed some light here. I know Zotto has folders from both crozier+ and crozier- Olla millepunctata for example. I have some sequences of Olla transiens both with and without but there's no indication of, say, with-crozier samples grouping together.

The "wet - greasy" looks of the hairs in the macro is something I connect with Olla transiens also. Hyaloscyphas have often a slightly more elegant looks, if you may.

Timo

Hello!
Micropicture 1 and 4 show the transiens-hairs and the last picture show "croziers = negative". In my opinion it is clear Olla transiens.
Greetings
Ingo

Indeed Ingo, I overlooked, perhaps because most of these glassy tips (I now count 5-6) are unfortunately unsharp on these pics.

Thank you all for your reactions.
I made some more pictures.The end of the hairs look like a glassy cap to me.I am quite sure there are no croziers. With lugol I could not detect a hemiamyloid reaction.All these elements are consistent with Olla transiens.

Marc

yes, very clear and typical. So the reaction was blue? Is the iodine strong enough? But the reaction is only very indistictly red in this species as I remember.