21 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Dasyscyphus virgineus Fruiting Body Cup shaped, then flattened, inner surface smooth, whitish to cream, underside hairy, white, attached to the substrate by a distinct stem, to about 2 mm across Flesh White Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season All year Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood and woody debris Microscopic Features Ascospores spindle shaped, smooth (6-10) x (1.5-2.5) µm2. Paraphyses lanceolate, septate. Asci eight spored. Hairs club shaped, septate, warty/rough. Edibility Inedible Notes This fungus cannot be identified without microscopy. 
A crop from the previous image. 21 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 21 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Marginal hairs in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 21 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collected by John Parsons. 22 February 2009 Berkshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |