Metatrichia floriformis

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.