8. Licea chelonoides Nann. - Bremek., Acta Bot. Neerl. 14: 136 (1965) Figs. 8A–J

Sporophores sporocarpic, dispersed or grouped, sessile. Sporocarps subglobose to subhemisphaerical, variable in size, height up to 0.5 mm × 0.8 mm diameter, dull black. Peridium thick, double, layers adhering (Fig. 8 I), outer layer granular, with minute ridges, inner layer orange to burnt sienna by TL (Fig. 8 E); dehiscence along preformed lines edged with rows of interlacing outgrowths. Spores free, dark brown in mass (Fig. 8 D), rosy brown by TL, with a pale area for germination, globose, (14–)15–18(–19) µm diam., densely unevenly warted. By SEM the inner peridium is minutely densely warted and the platelet margins have larger outgrowths; the epispore is densely covered with flattened verrucae.

Material examined: Isotypus. NETHERLANDS. Doorwerth, on decaying pine wood, 9-I-1964, NENB 5620 (BR 5020057361348)! .

Habitat: on decaying pine wood, also on bark of living and dead trees.

Distribution: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Russian Federation, Japan .

Icon.: Nannenga-Bremekamp (1965: 137, Figs. 5 A – D), Yamamoto (2006: 17, Figs. 6 A – C; 2021: 142, Figs. A – C).

Notes. This species has dark sporocarps similar to L. minima Fr., but they are dull black in reflected light (Figs. 8 C – D) and it has larger spores that are dark brown in mass, not reddish. In addition L. minima has more prominently ornamented spores by TL. In the description of L. chelonoides the author suggests the warts on the spores rub off, but in this was not observed in the type examined.