15 October 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Bracket shaped, finely hairy, whitish, often with a frosted appearance, to about 2 cm across Gills Radiating from the point of attachment, white then pale pink Stem Short, lateral, or absent, white Flesh Thin, white Smell Mealy, especially when crushed Taste Indistinct Season Spring to early winter Distribution Frequent Habitat On dead wood, and on woody debris, usually from deciduous trees Spore Print Pink Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, longitudinally lined (often quite faint) (6.5-8.5) x (4.5-5.5) µm2 angular with 6 to 10 sides when viewed end on. Basidia 4 spored, club shaped. Gill edge sometimes with emerging filamentous hyphae. Edibility Inedible Notes This species could be confused with Crepidotus species, but it is fairly easily distinguished from them by the frosted cap and mealy smell. It could also be confused with C. daamsii (which has larger spores) and C. scyphoides f. reductus although the latter species is not yet recorded in the UK. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 15 October 2014 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
9 November 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
9 November 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a fallen beech trunk. 13 November 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a fallen beech trunk. 13 November 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
9 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
9 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |