Ascocarps up to 3.5 mm in diameter. Growing on soil/organic debris. Paraphyses septate, with tips that enlarge from 5 - 7.5 µm. Asci have 8 spores, size is 205 - 227 x 9.5 - 10 µm. Spores are 15 - 17 x 8 - 8.8 µm.
Growing on charred wood or burnt ground. Paraphyses straight or curved, tips swollen up to 6.3 µm wide. Asci tips blue in Lugol's solution. Asci 238 - 263 x 10 - 11.5 µm. Spores smooth, (14.9) 15.1 - 16.6 (17.1) x (8.2) 8.4 - 9 (9.2) µm, Q = (1.6) 1.7 - 1.9 (2), N = 20, Me = 15.7 x 8.7 µm, Qe = 1.8.
Ascocarps up to 2 mm wide. Paraphyses straight, curved or hooked, 2.5 µm wide. Asci 135 - 163 x 9 - 10 µm with 8 spores. Spores globose, 8.8 - 9.5 µm in diameter. Growing on charred wood.
Rusty brown spore print. Growing in moss and needle duff.
Same location as https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/205263995
Asci with 8 spores, asci tips amyloid. Spores 13 - 15 septate. Setae present. Paraphyses with swollen tips. Growing in soil under Western Redcedar and Sitka Spruce.
Name based primarily on N. Am. occurrence. See: https://mushroomobserver.org/76607 comments by Jeannerot; and http://www.ascofrance.com/forum/31681/scutellinia-scutellata-crinita
Found in loose bark mulch. It's been raining heavily all week.