10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Gloeoporus pannocinctus Fruiting Body Resupinate, white to yellow, sometimes with a green tinge, becoming brown with age, pores small 6 to 8 per mm, 1 to 4 mm thick, to 1 m or more across Flesh Firm, white to yellow Smell Strong, unpleasant Season Autumn to spring Distribution Infrequent Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, usually recorded on beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped, smooth, hyaline (3.5-4.5) x (0.7-0.9) µm2. Hyphal system monomitic, generative hyphae with clamps. Cystidia not present. Basidioles cylindrical to spindle shaped. Basidia club shaped with two to four spores. Edibility Inedible Notes Believed to be a recent arrival with the first British record in 1991 in South Hampshire 
10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 10 October 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphae with clamps in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
8 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 8 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |