Hello,

yesterday we found a small salmon coloured tiny ascomycete on an attached branch of Salix. I was certain to have found an Orbilia, but to my surprise the microscopy revealed something totally different.
I at first even wondered if this could be an operculate ascomycete, but am quite convinced that it is inoperculate.

Asci appr. 100 x 14,5 µm, with croziers (or being pleurorhynch), IKI negative
Spores appr. 15,5 x 7,5 µm, with many medium sized and small oil drops, in IKI with two big glycogen deposites, becoming one-septate when germinating
Paraphyses filiform, septate, once or twice branched and often somewhat curved, some with an amorphes mass at the tip
Excipulum of a kind of textura angularis with quite massive cell walls, giving it an appearance of a gelatinous texture.

Growing on attached branch of Salix caprea, together with Hyalorbilia juliae and Lecanidion atratum, Goslar, Göttingerode, östl. Langenberg, 15.01.2020

Any suggestions very welcome :-)

all the best, Andreas and Sylvie