and scoped something just like this, but it never made it into an observation. I think it was a Sierra Nevada Field Campus find. Those characteristic black petals embedded beneath a deep orange, semi-gelatinous apothecium were an instant memory jogger. The asco volume of the Swiss series will have more to say on Cenangium, and perhaps other similar genera.

proposal Danny. Not familiar with this group but looks like a possibility.

something in the Rhytismatales group, those who are covered with a dark crust when they are immature (or dry)?