Botrytis elliptica is a necrotrophic pathogen that specifically infects Lilium species. Previous records show that B. elliptica collected in the field can successfully develop apothecia in vitro, however, there are no formal descriptions of apothecia of B. elliptica. The aim of this study was to analyse the sequence of the mating type loci of B. elliptica and produce apothecia in the laboratory in order to describe their morphology. The sequences of both MAT alleles (MAT1-1 or MAT1-2) of B. elliptica were determined and compared to the sister taxa, Botrytis cinerea and Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Two strains of each mating type were used in crosses under controlled conditions to produce apothecia. Primordium rupture from sclerotial tissue occurred 74 days after fertilization and a mature apothecium formed within 1 month after rupture. The apothecia are 7 to 12 mm in height with a disk of 3 to 4 mm in diameter and 0.5 to 1 mm in thickness. The apothecial disk is usually umbilicate, depressed to funnel and rounded in shape. The number of apothecia growing on a sclerotium was one to nine. Asci are long, cylindrical with a size of 208 × 14 μm, thin walled and bearing eight ascospores. Ascospores are hyaline in colour, ellipsoidal with rounded ends, usually 18 to 24 μm in length and 6 to 10 μm in width (mean 19.5 × 8 μm). Ascospores were infectious on lily leaves.