Didymium ochroideum

Didymium ochroideum G. Lister, Jour. Bot. 69: 297. 1931
Sporangia sessile and pulvinate or forming slender plasmodiocarps, 0.5 mm. broad, often depressed in the center, pale brown or ochraceous; peridium pale, dull orange, thickly clothed with stellate crystals, sometimes divided into small areoles, each with a dark, raised center to which the crystals adhere; hypothallus scanty, yellowish-red; columella orange, composed of the thickened and convex, somewhat limy base; capillitium a loose network of slender, pale purplish threads; spores pale purplish-gray by transmitted light, minutely warted, 7-8 y. in diameter; Plasmodium white.
Type locality: Japan.
Habitat: Dead leaves and herbaceous stems, mosses, and dung of herbivorous animals. Distribution: New York, Ontario, Iowa; India; Japan.