20 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Saucer shaped, inner surface smooth, orange, underside rough, pale orange, decorated with small tufts of brown hairs, to about 3 mm across Flesh Thin, orange Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Frequent Habitat On burnt ground Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, with two drops (14-22) x (7-11) µm2. Asci 8 spored. Paraphyses cylindrical, tips swollen, septate. Hairs to about 10 µm wide, and often over 100 µm long. Edibility Inedible Notes The specimens shown were identified using Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates by Ellis and Ellis. This species cannot be recognised without microscopy. |