Observation is for small lichen with brownish apothecia. On mossy base of living sweet birch.
Growing from standing dead birch in mixed woods, predominantly hemlock; two specimens apprx. 6-7 & 10 foot up tree.
Spore print pink, spores smooth with apiculus measuring 6x4.5 um, Qe=1.3. Pileipellis in cutis (photo 9), abundant pleurocystidia, many with hooks, measured three all projecting apprx. 50 um above surface.