Neottiella ricciae

I'd filed bryophilous fungi under 'maybe later if I ever get the time', but this little orange asco on Riccia sorocarpa at Broadhaven South proved surprisingly easy to ID with a google search. It's Neottiella (Leucoscyphus) ricciae, which FRDBI suggests has only been recorded once before in the UK, by Ted Ellis in Norfolk in 1968. I'm happy with that as a debut. George Greiff will take the specimen for the fungus herbarium that he's collating. The dark Riccia spore alongside the ascospores in the image below came from Riccia subbifurca, although it has something of the Mediterranean  R. warnstorfii about it - thick tubercles and a spore wing seemingly thickened to one corner. I'll be interested to see the results of Christian Berg's work on the genus when it's published, as a Stackpole specimen fed into that.