Cribraria cancellata

Sporangia:- height 1 to 5 mm., gregarious, stalked, nodding, subglobose or depressed, often umbilicate above, brown or brownish purple, 0.5 to 0.7 mm. diam.

Sporangial wall forming a net with nearly square meshes, composed of numerous rigid, longitudinal ribs, connected by slender, transverse threads, often breaking up into an irregular net at the top;

Calyculus usually rudimentary or lacking, sometimes well developed.

Stalk: subulate, bent or twisted at the slender top, dark brown or purplish brown, two to eight times the height of the sporangium.

SPORES: Pale reddish or purplish nearly smooth, usually with one or more large, dark, plasmodic granules on the spore wall.

Substrate:- Usually on dead wood