I collected and cultivated a fresh batch of Goose dung and found Ascobolus branthophilus in great number but also found a small number of a second globluar Ascobolus.
This second one had spores that were 31 x 16-17. Some were evenly granular so would fit with A stictoidius but I could find no sign of the musilaginous attachment to the spores. Other spores showed signs of some small uneaven fissures but a second feature was that many of the spores looked to have a loosening perispore. This is something I have not come across in Ascobolus before so is this normal or an important feature.
The asci were also rather squat compared with the stictoideus I have found before.
Suggestions greatfully received.
Mal