I have another Anthracobia under my lens which was growing on burnt ground with another Anthracobia (A. tristis). This looks like A. nitida , but again and again.... with shorter spores !

- Ascocarps bright yellowish-orange (in shade) but vivid in sunlight, hairless to the naked eye, with brown tufts of hair on the lower surface when mature, 2.5-4.5mm across, heaped over each other, sometimes with sunken hymenium 

- Asci J-ve without a specialised root/base , operculate

- Spores (13.6) 13.8 - 15.2 (15.5) × (7.6) 7.9 - 9 (9.5) µm

- Paraphyses with poorly to fairly swollen heads, 5um wide, their orange pigment (at upper half) is amyloid and takes a bluish-green colour. Very few split into two heads.

- Ectal excipulum prismatic (-globose) 20-48um across

- Brown tufts of hair at regular intervals on the abaxial surface of the cup consists of parallele rows of 4-6 broadly ellipsoid to rectangular hyphae with the terminal being slightly larger and swollen (20-25 um long). Total length of thse hairs estimated to be 70-110 um

- There seems to be true hairs with thick solid wall 1-septate, the basal part globular. Not sure if these belong to the rhizoids, Rare to find, posibly present only at the base. 80-120um long (only few examined)