This is completely new to me - on decaying olive fruit

Fuzzy yellow heads about 0.5mm across (sometimes ca. 1mm) arising from a short stipe. Any small idea or help (Family, Order...) is also appreciated. I collected the specimen but on one hand I am too busy on the other too curios!

Hopefully tmrw morning! I am also so curios

Dear Thorben and microfungi lovers. I woke at 1:30am and went straight to investigate this fungus. Well, it is a large microfungus looking a bit like a medusa head but I studied the structure and it consists of (at least) the following features

1. Large amounts of conidiospores measuring (6)7-8(9) x 2-3 um, cylindrical and slightly curved with rounded ends

2. Numerous snake-like (curved) paraphyses, 2-3 septate, clavate with very rough (densely verrucose) walls

3. Dense and x2 (or more) branched penicillate conidiophores that are much shorter from the paraphyses

4. Structural cells with deep yellow pigment, more or less subsphericall

These fruiting bodies are erupting from the fruit's pulp (not superficial)

Spores' size:

(6.1) 6.8 - 8.5 (9.1) × (2.2) 2.3 - 2.8 (2.9) µm

Q = (2.2) 2.5 - 3.5 (3.9) ; N=27

V = (18) 21 - 33 (38) µm3

Me = 7.7 × 2.5 µm ; Qe = 3 ; Ve = 26 µm3

Magnified images of the

fruiting cluster (c. 1mm across)

Thanks for helping and having an interest in this fungus. I spend a few hours googling and flipping the pages of my microfungi book in vain as well. So maybe I post on ascofrance tmrw and I keep you posted.

Dear friends, long time no see. I had a difficult period and now things look bright again. I have few updates, and I start with this one.

I managed to isolate pure colonies of this, sequenced them and got a good result for Sarcopodium vanillae (Petch) B. Sutton (syn. Actinostilbe vanillae). I believe we are seeing the anamorph.

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