On rotten oak, with Arachnopeziza aurata. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Forming small patches on the substrate, thin, smooth to wrinkled, whitish, pale yellow to pale ochraceous, margin fibrous Flesh Soft, waxy, whitish Smell Indistinct Season Unknown Distribution Very rarely recorded Habitat Usually on rotten wood from deciduous trees and shrubs, less often on rotten wood from conifers Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores subspherical, smooth (3-3.5) x (2-2.5) µm2. Basidia slenderly club shaped, four spored. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2 to 3 µm wide, septate with clamps. Septocystidia cylindrical, about 5 µm wide, septate, clamps present. Edibility Unknown but of no value Notes Microscopically the specimen shown matches Ceraceomyces sublaevis. The specimen shown was DNA sequenced by Eric Janke of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group in association with the BMS. The results show that it is gentically closely related to, but distinct from, Ceraceomyces sublaevis. The DNA sequence for the ITS region matches that of an undescribed specimen in the GENBANK database. Interestingly Eric sequenced two specimens from the Kew herbarium. One matched Ceraceomyces sublaevis, the other did not. 
On rotten oak, with a Mollisia species. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia and septocystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Septocystidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 28 February 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |