Ascocarp Morphology. Ascocarp subglobose or globose, orifice or cavity absent, 0.5-1 cm in diameter, yellow or ochre or brown or red, smooth, peridium finely pubescent, color of spore-bearing tissue grey or brown (clay buff), veins large and rare. Peridium 150-200 micron, hyaline or yellow-brown, anatomical structure pseudoparenchymatic with angular cells or pseudoparenchimatic with roundish cells, cell tangential dimension 10-15 micron, color hyaline, external cystidia present, Cystidia length 60-110 micron, Cystidia basal diameter 4-9 micron, Cystidia septa present, Cystidia 1-4. Sterile veins plectenchimatic.
Asci ans spores Morphology. Asci globose, major axis 80-108 micron, minor axis 66-95 micron, number of spores per ascus 1-4, irregularly clustered.
Spores subglobose or globose, major axis 28-31-34 micrometer lenght, minor axis 28-31-34 micrometer lenght, color pale brown or medium brown, reticulation; number of meshes along the major axis 5-8.
Distribution. Habitat temperate; Putative plant host Pinus.
DNA polymorphism. ITS restriction pattern with EcoRI 250-300 bp; SphI 200-250 bp, or 300-350 bp; HincII 500-550 bp; DNA sequence ID of the ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 regions AF003918.
Mycorrhizae morphology. Mycorrhizae emanting hyphae absent, or rare; anatomy of emanating hyphae: clamps absent; color of emanating hyphae hyaline; color of very tip whitish, or ochre, yellowish brown; color of older parts ochre, yellowish brown, or brown; cystidia present; needle like; color hyaline; intercalate swelling absent; ramification absent; anatomy of the mantle pseudoparenchymatus with epidermoid hyphal cells" like a puzzle".