29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Fan shaped, covered with fine white scales, dark brown to whitish, laterally attached to the substrate, to about 4 cm across Gills Decurrent, white Stem Short or absent, tapering towards the base, whitish Flesh White to brownish Smell Mealy Taste Mealy Season Autumn Distribution Rare Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores broadly ellipsoidal (5-6.5) x (3.5-4.5) µm2. Basidia 2 or 4 spored. Gill metuloids spindle shaped, thick walled. Clamp connections present in the cap hyphae. Notes Apparently often confused with H. petaloides which grows on the ground. The specimens shown were exuding a white fluid from the gills, a phenomenon not referred to in the literature. 
29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a x100 immersion microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Metaloids viewed with a x40 microscope objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Metaloid viewed with a x40 microscope objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Clamp connections in the cap cuticle viewed with a x40 microscope objective and x2.5 projection eyepiece. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |