SPORANGIA: gregarious or somewhat clustered, erect, cylindric, obtuse, 4-6 mm. tall, blackish dusky drab and then ferruginous, becoming pallid, stipitate.

STALK:stipe short, black, polished, rising from a thin, brown or iridescent hypothallus.

COLUMELLA: columella percurrent, ceasing abruptly at the apex;

CAPILLITIUM: filling the interior with abundant branches which form at the surface a close-meshed net, little developed above, making the apex very blunt;