Dear friends, I have come across what I believed to be an ascocarp but after microscopical investigations, I don't what it is composed of!!!


The bodies were jelly-like and very difficult to slice, hyaline or slightly pulverous above, astipitate, cushion-like bodies sitting on the surface of a decaying twig, sometimes coalescing to form colonies. Some individuals had a pale ochraceous granule at the centre which under the microscope seems to be abiotic and disintegrate into amorphous particles 

When finally I sliced a section, I could see a meshwork of numerous 'hyphae' without any special reproductive organs. No spores could be detected.

Is it an Exidia?


Sliced section shows a central amorphous body suspended in a loose gelatinous tissue composed of loose hyphae in a meshwork network (very thin - 1um ) and an outer layer made up of a different  denser tissue, but without any special organs (eg asci)