• Scuttelinia: Macro and habitat.
• S. scutellata group (part 18 in Jeannerot's key): Long hairs, small ellipsoid spores, ornamentation of warts and ridges.
• S crinita rather than S. scutellata complex: Spores with rounded poles, mean Q 1.5 and mostly <= 1.6, often slightly wider than range in Jeannerot's key.

Habitat: On exposed inner bark still attached to dead trunk or woody debris, some erupting from cracks in the bark, wood looks like Fraxinus excelsior, relatively exposed but damp area, near a stream and backwater, mixed deciduous woodland, southern England, mid-March.

Associates: Hyalorbilia cf. inflatula (no micro) and Nectriaceae sp. anamorph on debris, purplish-whitish crust fungus (possibly Peniophora sp.) on the trunk, dematiaceous fungi, bryophytes, some small translucent mites on debris (like those seen with Hyalorbilia inflatula previously).

Apothecia: Gregarious to 4-caespitose, diameter < 5 mm, orange, initially globose and covered by dense eyelash-like hairs, becoming broadly cupulate to cyathiform, more flat when larger, sessile, superficial; dark hairs on margin and flanks, developing early, longer and inwards-pointing at margin, shorter at flanks; receptacle dull yellow-orange, margin distinct, slightly raised; disc +/- plane, deep orange, +/- pruinose (mature asci); no visible subiculum.

Storage and methods: Stored for ~48 hours in a damp box, sections taken from a single large and mature-looking apothecium, mounted in water, little pressure required for squashing, chemicals added to water mount.

Asci: 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, thin-walled, uniseriate, simple or bifurcate base (h-shape observed), after several minutes started discharging in water mount.

• Vital mature: Clavate, apex rounded-obtuse, 1-1.5-seriate, spores more horizontal especially towards the apex, distinctly protruding from paraphyses, pars sporifera ~40%.
• Dead mature: Limited loss of turgidity, cylindrical, apex acute-truncate, sometimes with shoulders/narrowing, sometimes operculum more visible, uniseriate, spores vertical, spores often not in apex and more loosely distributed, pars sporifera ~60-70%.

Spores: Ellipsoid, homopolar-rounded, mean Q 1.5, thick-walled ~1.5-2 um, with perispore, relatively small (for genus), highly guttulate when mature and fresh, small to medium-size greenish LBs ~1.5-2.5 um diameter, OCI 5, apparently LBs increasing with maturity, ornamentation of small warts and crests, protruding in median view < 1 um, (peri)spores attached by gelatinous stringy material in asci and post-discharge, four spores in one ascus appear collapsed and lens-shaped (diameter ~10-12 um), immature spores appear to have large perispore (one measured ~23 x 17 um with spore ~12 x 9 um).

Measurements of vital mature spores in water mount and asci (not including perispore): (16.8) 17.7 - 20.1 (20.8) × (11.1) 11.6 - 13.3 (13.9) µm, Q = (1.4) 1.42 - 1.6 (1.7), N = 49, Me = 18.9 × 12.5 µm, Qe = 1.5.

Paraphyses: Long, narrow, clavate-spatulate apex, multi-septate, reddish contents (VBs?) particularly in apical and basal cells, exceeding immature asci.

Hairs: Long, dark, multiseptated, narrowly to moderately conical, straight to slightly crooked towards the disc, acute apex, some short hairs with rounded apex, base abruptly multi-furcate, often 2-3-furcate, pointing inwards at margin ~1-1.5 mm long, at margin and upper flanks ~0.5-0.7 mm long, at lower flanks ~0.1-0.5 mm long, yellowish-hyaline exudate clinging to some hairs.

Subhymenium: Pale orange due to paraphysis bases, with swollen hyaline cells.

Ectal excipulum: Hyaline, textura globosa-prismatica, large cells; marginal cells smaller, clavate, 2-septate?, with small orangish LBs.

Medullary excipulum: Hyaline, textura porecta?

Basal attachment: Some small hyaline hyphae, not forming subiculum.

KOH + CR: Walls standard reaction.

+ Clemecon's CRB: Perispore faintly blue.