Gloeocapsa photobiont with a red to purple gelatinous sheath and ascogones and tricogynes beneath the pycnidia.

Very tiny, on base of dead Green Ash in vernal pool, growing in bark fissures. spores 17.5-25x10 8 per ascus. Smaller spores 3 septate, larger 4-5 septate.

On wood forming a platform lookout.

• on willow
• underside tan brown to black