Hello all,

I am new here, thanks for having me. I collected this inoperculate that I can't seem to identify:

Description: Discomycete. Apothecia superficial, substipitate, planar, scattered-gregarious, up to ~500µm wide, soft fleshy; receptacle duff, becoming dark grey-brown with age, roughened-subtomentose to subglabrous at maturity; disc pale buff to caramel brown with a subhyaline margin in young apothecia. Stroma absent. Ectal excipulum at the margins composed of pale brown textura porrecta, darkening with age, grading into an irregular textura angularis-prismatica intermixed with irregular filamentous hyphae; in young specimens, hyphae terminate in short, blunt, pale brown, sparsely septate hairs with smooth walls. Subhymenium pale brown. Medullary excipulum a hyaline textura irregularis with occasional clusters of hyaline textura-globosa, loose. Paraphyses hyaline, cylindrical to clavate, basally branched, occasionally septate, 2.5-4.0µm wide, terminating slightly above asci. Asci clavate, 8-spored, uniseriate or ocasionally biseriate at the apex, 65-70x6.5-9.0µm, without a refractive apical pore, J-, lacking croziers. Ascospores hyaline, irregularly globose to subglobose, 5.0-7.0µm diameter, smooth-walled. Anamorph not observed.

Substrate: Dead leaves on dead stem of live Hudsonia tomentosa

I have tentatively filed it under the genus Pithyella based on morphology, but these are all on cryptogams i.e. ferns, bryophytes, and other fungi. 

Does anyone recognize this fungus? Thank you!

Bruce