On a fallen eucalypt branch. Inset at the upper right are several spores, still within an ascus. The thick whitish bands, above and below the spores, are the ascus wall. Inset at the lower right (at a slightly smaller magnification) are spores in several stages of development (and at the left you see the pale but clear outline of the apical part of an ascus). The spores darken as they mature and the different internal cross walls within a spore develop at different times.
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