Identified by Alan Lucas. 17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Cup shaped, laterally attached to the host, upper surface finely hairy, lower fertile surface smooth, sometimes wrinkled, initially cream then brown with age, to about 4 mm across Smell Unknown Taste Unknown Season Autumn to spring Distribution Rarely recorded, with no records from the south east Habitat Parasitic on living mosses, usually on tree trunks Spore Print Cinnamon brown Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical, finely warty (7-10) µm. Basidia 4 spored. Edibility Unknown 
17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 17 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |