SPORANGIA :gregarious, stalked, erect to 1.5 mm high, globose, about 0.5 mm. diam., yellow or brownish yellow;

PERIDIUM: wall membranou, srugose, persistent at the base, encrusted with lime, with small, yellow lime-granules.

STALK: white, buff, yellow, or orange, stout cylindric or tapering upward, opaque, chalky in section, charged with lime-granules.

COLUMELLA: short, conical, white or yellowish, rarely orange

CAPILLITIUM: of irregularly branching, delicate, hyaline threads, often expanded at the axils, with white or yellow lime nodes, usually large and angled, but various in size and shape.