vinaceous

Stromata glomerate with few perithecia or effused-pulvinate; 2-23 mm long x 3-10 mm broad x 1-1.5 mm thick, coalescent, with inconspicuous perithecial mounds up to 1/2 exposed; surface Umber (9), becoming Sepia (63) to blackish when old, pruinose; orange brown granules immediately beneath surface, red-brown granules detected by microscopic examination in water; KOH-extractable pigments Vinaceous Purple (101); the tissue below the perithecial layer inconspicuous, 0.4-0.7 mm thick, black.

Colonies on OA covering a 90 mm Petri dish in 4 weeks, at first whitish, becoming Greyish Sepia (105) with reddish tones, velvety to felty, zonate, with entire margin, Brick (59); reverse Brown Vinaceous (84).

The young stromata release Vinaceous Purple (101) pigments in contact with 10% KOH, but in mature stromata they are Fawn (87) or lacking.

6 cm de diam., asymmetric; sepals green, oblong or orbicular to ovate, abaxial surface pilose, 7.5-8.5 X 4-6 mm; petals yellow, two external, oblong to ovate, 16-31 X 9-26 mm, two internal, oblong to obovate, 14-30 X 9-19 mm, cuculus orbicular, bent around the androecium and gynoecium, 17-25 X 11-20 mm; stamens yellow to vinaceous, 8-18 mm long; staminoids yellow, 4-5 mm long; ovary yellow, setulose, 16-28 mm long; style green, 3-5 mm long.

Flowers 0.7-3 cm diam., asymmetric; sepals green, abaxial surface pilose, elliptic to ovate or ovate to orbicular, 5-12 X 2-9; petals yellow, two external, oblong to ovate, 6-7 X 4-6 mm, two internal, orbicular, 7-8 X 5-5.5 mm, cuculus bent around the androecium, 10-15 X 5-9 mm; stamens yellowish to vinaceous, 2.5-5.5 mm long; staminoids 0.5-2 mm long; ovary vinaceous, pilose, 5-12 mm long; style green to vinaceous, 6-11.5 mm long.

Inflorescences racemose, subumbeliform, axillary, 2-5 flowered; bracts green to vinaceous, lanceolate to deltoid, 4-6 X 2-4 mm; pedicel 7-28 mm long.