Hi all,

On a forest path we found many fruit bodies of Cheilymenia theleboloides f. theloboloides on waste including probably chicken manure. On the same substrate I found one fruit body that resembles a small peziza but ultimately is an Ascobolus.
The brown fruit body is 10 mm wide and 8 mm high and has a sturdy stem.
Very striking is the bright yellow mucus layer in which the tops of the paraphyses curl over the ascis.
The paraphyses are filiform occasionally with enlarged apices 145 x 3 µm
Asci: 124-209 x 13-20 µm in Melzer's reagent all colors of the rainbow!
Spores ripen from hyaline to purple with longitudinal stripes: 13-19 x 7-10 µm
With the key of Brummelen I arrive at Ascobolus lignatilis but the color of the apothecium is brown instead of yellow.
Can someone help me with this determination, thank you in advance!

Greetings,

François Bartholomeeusen