On the underside of a rotten deciduous stump. The yellow substance is a resupinate fungus. 1 December 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Cup shaped when young, flattening with age, inner surface smooth, blackish green, margin paler, underside blackish brown and scurfy, without a stem, broadly attached to the substrate, to about 1 cm across Smell Indistinct Distribution Infrequent Habitat On rotten wood from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores shoe shaped to subfusiform, smooth, containing two drops (8-10.5) x (3.8-4.2) µm2. Asci eight spored. Paraphyses slender, cylindrical, somewhat swollen and club shaped at the tips. Edibility Unknown but of no interest 
A crop from the previous image. 1 December 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 1 December 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Asci in Lactophenl Cotton Blue solution viewed with a 40X objective. 1 December 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |