16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Irregular, resupinate, thin, surface rough, pink, margin white Smell Indistinct Taste Not tasted Season Autumn to spring Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On dead and dying wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, amyloid, decorated with spines, apiculus clearly seen (20-28) x (14-20) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present. Hyphidia warty, gloeocystidia present but few in number. Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |