Description: [Plate 69].
Fruit-body: chestnut-brown to rust colour with a distinct white or cream margin, fleshy, smooth, concave and thrown up into irregular humps.
Stem: lacking, but undersurface pale, ochraceous, and bearing numerous cylindrical branched, whitish root-like structures, 1-2 mm thick.
Flesh: reddish brown, tough and fibrous.
Spores: very, very long, spindle-shaped with two or more internal droplets, with hyaline extensions at each end, and 22-40 × 8-11 µm in size; eight contained in an elongate cylindrical ascus.
Habitat & Distribution: Infrequent in pine woods but common at the sites of bonfires in pine woodlands.
Daldinia concentrica (Fries) Cesati & de Notaris Cramp-balls
Fruit-body: diameter 20-40 mm × 20-60 mm.
Description:
Fruit-body: date-brown at first finally black or dark brownish black, tough, minutely pimply over entire surface although at first covered in a powdery dust of asexual spores (conidia).