Sporangia: free, or often adhering in clusters of two to twenty, obovoid, subglobose, or cylindrical, brown often mottled with darker shades, purplish red or black.
Stalk: furrowed, bright or dark red, translucent and free from refuse matter, 1 to 2 mm. or more long, usually adhering in clusters and arising from a red hypothallus.
Peridium: of two layers, the outer charged with granular matter and continued into the stalk, the inner membranous, translucent, enclosing the spores.
Capillitium: of pale brownish red elaters, marked with four to six spiral bands, ending in tapering points, 20-40 µm long.
Spores: Brick-red in mass, pale orange-red by transmitted light, minutely warted, 10-12 µm diam..
Plasmodium: Purple-brown.
Metatrichia floriformis is listed in the following regions:
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