1. The gleba consists of mycelium, and basidia and may also contain capillitium threads. 2. The capillitium is thick-walled, unbranched, and 4 7 ?m thick. 3. Both the spores and the capillitium are whitish to very pale yellow-brown. 4. The capillitium refers to late-maturing, thick-walled cells in the gleba. 5. Kreisel, in his 1967 monograph, proposed two subgenera based on the type of capillitium . 6. A capillitium or pseudocapillitium is lacking. 7. The network of fertile tissue inside the inner peridium, the capillitium , arises from the columella. 8. The capillitium is 5 8 ?m in diameter, reddish brown, thin walled, nonseptate, without any branches. 9. The flexibility of the capillitium gives the gleba a cottony texture that persists even after the exoperidium has been sloughed off. 10. Meylan thought the species warranted a new genus based on the unique mode of dehiscence and the makeup of the capillitium .
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