On box elder; Inner parts of apothecium colorless, epihymenium dark brown; in polarized light, small crystals evident in exciple, abundant and arranged in radiating groups
On oak bark; spores 8/ascus, brown, 1-septate, small (scope w/no reticle), elliptical (each cell roughly hemispheric rather than triangular, as in Baculifera curtisii)