Moriola

Unlichenized or lichenized fungi containing a disorganized mix of algae, usually including cyanobacteria also as a primary photobiont; thallus black, gelatinous, appearing as an indistinct smear or sometimes granular; perithecia black, hemispheric to subglobose, jet black, without a thalline cover; hymenium formed of mostly unbranched paraphyses that largely disintegrate into thick gel; asci thin-walled, narrowly elliptical to cylindric; spores brown, transversely septate or muriform, elliptical.

References: Clauzade & Roux 1985; Foucard 2001.

Thallus of confluent, barely distinguishable granules, usually intermixed with undifferentiated cyanobacterial and fungal masses; perithecia 0.15-0.25 mm wide, blackish brown; spores with 3 transverse septae and usually 1-2 longitudinal septae, 16-21 × 7.5-8.5  µ; common in inland BC on mossy logs, to be sought …[Moriola crustularis Norman ex Bachm.]