Diderma ochraceum Hoffm. 1796

Diderma ochraceum Hoffm. Deuts. Fl. pi. 9,f. 2 b. 1795
Reticularia ochracea Poir. in Lam. Encyc. 6: 182. 1804. Chondrioderma ochraceum Schroet. Krypt.-Fl. Schles. 3 l : 124, 1885.
Sporangiate, sessile, the sporangia often on a constricted base, scattered or clustered, subglobose, 0.4-1 mm. in diameter, the fructification varying to short, curved or annulate plasmodiocarps, deep ochraceous, rarely pale red; peridium double, the outer wall cartilaginous, nearly smooth or wrinkled, bearing concolorous lime deposits, free from or adherent to the membranous, yellowish inner peridium; columella not strongly developed; capillitium abundant, the threads simple or branching, purple-brown, often hyaline at the base; spores black in mass, purplish-gray by transmitted light, minutely spinulose, 9-11 /* in diameter; Plasmodium lemonyellow.
Type locality: Germany.
Habitat: Mosses and liverworts in wet places.
Distribution: Quebec, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Tennessee; Europe; Japan.