28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Cup shaped, inner surface smooth, whitish to pale yellow, outer surface coarsely hairy, whitish to pale yellow, embedded in a cob web like subiculum Flesh Firm, pale yellow Smell Unknown Season All year Distribution Rarely reported, but probably not uncommon as easily overlooked Habitat On rotten wood from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores slenderly spindle shaped with up to 7 septa (50-75) x (1.5-3) µm2. Asci 8 spored without croziers. Hairs cylindrical, septate, sparsely encrusted. Paraphyses thread like, sometimes branched. Edibility Inedible 
A close up view. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Asci, paraphyses and hairs in lactophenol cotton blue viewed with a x40 objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Ascus in lactophenol cotton blue viewed with a x40 objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |