3 April 2020 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Forming a thin layer on the substrate, usually lumpy or with short teeth, less often smooth, pale yellow, yellow buff or pinkish buff, margin cottony Smell Indistinct Season Winter to spring Distribution Very rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood and leaves from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to fusiform, with small spines (7-10) x (4.5-6) µm2. Basidia 4 spored, clavate. Hyphal system monomitic, subhymenial hyphae 4 to 5 µm wide, with clamps and simple septa. Cystidia absent. Edibility Inedible 
3 April 2020 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 3 April 2020 Noar Hill, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |