RBG Kew herbarium accession number K(M)165368. 7 February 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Shell or kidney shaped, smooth to finely felty, orange brown, dark brown or reddish brown, to about 3 cm across Gills Adnate, crowded, eccentric, brown Stem Short, eccentric, thin, concolorous with the cap Flesh Thin, pale brown Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Autumn to spring Distribution Rare Habitat On rotten wood, favouring beech Spore Print Snuff brown to umber Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (6-8) x (3.5-4.5) µm2. Basidia cylindrical, or slightly club shaped, four spored. Gill edge cystidia narrowly lageniform. Hyphae with clamp connections. Edibility Unknown but of no interest due to the small size Notes This fungus is described in British Fungus Flora 5 and Funga Nordica. It is superficially very similar to Panellus stipticus. 
7 February 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
7 February 2010 West Sussex. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |