My impression is that the spores are non-septate when inside living asci and septation occurs only after ejection or inside dead asci. But this should be verified. Hyaloscypha in the wide sense appears to me rather clear, but today some members of the genus were transferred to new genera, I remember H. paludosa is not Mimicoscypha paludosa.

So here you have purely non-septate spores. DNA would surely help, but the apos must be clean, dangerous is to use some which were several days in the fridge. I hope you have your photos also without piximeter, this method is quite disturbing and hides the spores, much better is a single scale for each photo and only a collective measurement.

Hi,

This is an interesting sample. To me it looks very much like Mimicoscypha with the frequent guttules in excipulum and in the hairs especially. However, we have observed M. lacrimiformis both with and without guttules at the same locality / date and both later found 100% identical (sequence). M. lacrimiformis (the only Mimicoscypha sequenced) is a possibilty. M. mimica is another option as it also has crozier.

Resinoscypha (variepilosa) is yet another option. It too has guttules inside cells, spores usually <10 um long. Developing hairs bulky and not evenly tapering - proportionally wider compared to mature hairs that are more typical thin-walled multiseptate tapering etc. And it has cyanophilous substance ("resin") inside the hairs. Thereäs something non-Resinoscypha-like in the macro. 

I dont find these very easy. Resinoscypha is fairly common here Spring and Autumn like. Often I have thought I found Mimicoscypha only to find out based on sequence it is a Resinoscypha after all. Mimicoscypha possibly a Spring season species, but not enough n to really believe that myself.

It could be something else too... These hyaloscyphoids with multiseptate hairs have many homes :-)

Timo

sorry for the missing verbs, but maybe that was understandable still... or maybe no sense at all :-) :-) :-)

Timo