Cribraria tenella

Cribraria tenella Schrad. Nov. Gen. PI. 6. 1797
Cribraria data Massee, Monog. 61. 1892.
Sporangia gregarious, globose, small, mostly 0.3-0.5 mm. in diameter, olivaceous or ochraceous, long-stipitate, nodding; stalk slender, dark brown or blackish, very long, reaching 6 mm. in length, weak and flexuous; cup variable, sometimes well defined, brown, costate, sometimes represented by the costae only, connected by a thin, transparent membrane, rarely obsolete; net well differentiated, the meshes small, irregular, the nodes small, black, prominent, rounded, connected by transparent threads, free ends usually few; spores olivaceous-ochraceous in mass, pallid by transmitted light, globose, almost smooth, 5-7 ji in diameter.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Dead wood.
Distribution: Throughout North America; cosmopolitan.