Cap: absent. Fruit-body up to 20 mm high.
Description:
Fruit-body: upper fertile portion club-shaped and not more than half the length, white, surmounting a reddish brown, thread-like, often wavy or twisted stem which is attached at its base to an ellipsoid bead-like structure, called a sclerotium.
Spore-print: white.
Spores: oblong, smooth, hyaline under the microscope, 6-7 × 2 µm in size and not becoming bluish grey in iodine solutions.
Cystidia: absent.
Habitat & Distribution: Not uncommon on dead leaves and twigs or dead herbaceous stems.
Pistillaria micans Fries.
Cap: absent. Fruit-body: up to 10 mm high.
Description: