28 February 2015 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Cyphellopsis anomala Fruiting Body Cup or disk shaped, with a short stem, inner surface smooth, grey, outer surface coarsely hairy, brown, margin pale, to about 0.5 mm across Flesh Soft Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, especially beech, usually in large groups Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal (8-10) x (4-5) µm2. Basidia four spored. Hairs at cap margin encrusted, tips smooth, cylindrical to club shaped. Edibility Unknown but of no value Notes The wood beneath the fungus is covered with a mycelial mat or subiculum. This fungus cannot reliably be separated from other members of the same genus without microscopy. 
A crop from the first image. 28 February 2015 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo red viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 28 February 2015 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Encrusted cap margin hairs viewed with a x40 objective. 28 February 2015 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
31 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 31 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo red viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 31 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Encrusted cap margin hairs viewed with a x40 objective. 31 December 2016 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |