A tiny amber-to-golden cup fungus, under 1 mm across, common on herbivore dung worldwide. As in all Saccobolus species, its eight purple-brown ascospores are cemented together into one packet that stays joined after it is shot out of the ascus. Saccobolus kervernii, the species on which Boudier based the genus, is treated as a synonym of this species, so this entry stands for the genus type.
Not edible; a minute dung fungus with no food use. No toxicity documented.
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Coprophilous: on dung of horse, cattle, sheep, deer, camel, elephant, bear, wildebeest, gnu and zebu.
Distribution
Worldwide (Melo et al. 2014), including records from Pernambuco, Brazil.
Characteristics
Description from Brazilian collections (Melo et al. 2014). Apothecia: scattered or in groups, sessile, smooth, 350-800 µm across; globose when young, becoming cushion-shaped; amber, margin not distinct. Disc: convex, golden before the asci ripen, later dotted with dark purple to black protruding ascus tips. Hymenium: 162-200 µm thick. Paraphyses: cylindrical, simple or branched near the tip, septate, hyaline, 3-3.5 µm wide. Asci: 8-spored, cylindric-clavate, 175-260 x 20-32 µm. Spore packet: spores in four columns of two, 52.5-57.5 x 20-21.5 µm, in a thick gelatinous sheath. Ascospores: ellipsoid to slightly fusiform, hyaline when young, purple-brown when mature, 25-27.5 x 7.5-12.5 µm, with fine isolated warts.
