• Macro and habitat suggest Hyaloscyphaceae s.l.
• Hyaloscypha suggested by hairs and spores.
• Spores, asci, hairs, and substrate, seem to suggest H. aureliella.
• Subiculum and conidia look similar to photos of CBS 126298.

Habitat: On the underside of two pieces of wood from Pinus sylvestris, a part of a small branch and a broken part of a larger piece of wood, mostly on decorticated parts, damp when found, on the floor, grassy and exposed locations, 175 m alt., Old Lodge nature reserve, Ashdown Forest, High Weald, southern England, early-November.

Apothecia: Apparently sometimes arising from a +/- dense subiculum, could be an anamorph, whitish to pinkish-orangish to brownish, appearing downy or foam-like with hyphae difficult to distinguish, gregarious to 6+-caespitose, many 10s of apothecia on the larger piece, diameter (0.35) 0.40-0.53-0.75 (0.93) mm, sessile, superficial, whitish-translucent with some hints of orangish-brown.

Low magnification: Cupulate to slightly urceolate, eventually more discoid, receptacle and margin whitish with many short hairs, often with a moderate number of large drops of golden-brownish exudate around the flanks, disc concave, more translucent with a gelatinous appearance, margin round or occasionally lobate, often compressed by the environment, hairs noticeable and more reflective, apparently remaining raised above the disc.

Asci: Turgid ~54-63 x 7-8 µm, croziers, rings bb, more like Calycina-type?

Spores: Ellipsoid-clavate, several small LBs towards each pole, OCI < 1, asymmetric or sometimes slightly curved in profile view.

Free spores in water or in mature asci:
(8.2) 8.4-9.6 (10.3) × 2.2-2.6 µm, Q = (3.3) 3.4-4.0 (4.4), N = 23, mean = 9.0 × 2.4 µm, Q mean = 3.8.

Paraphyses: Apparently few, filiform, apex not to slightly inflated, width ~2-3 µm, septate, no notable contents.

Hairs: Protruding part ~45-55 (60) x 3.5-4.0 µm, flexible, tapering to a rounded end, aseptate, hyaline, some agglutinated with very large drops of oily golden exudate, leaving many small globules on the hairs, one or two globose to sub-globose basal cells.

Medullary: Not seen clearly, possibly reduced.

Ectal: Text. prismatica to globosa-angularis, many small patches of amyloidity.

Conidia: Stuck to the receptacle, light brown walls, all seen with two globose cells, one appears to be developing another septum, septal pore often noticeable.