12 September 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Cup shaped, often flattened and folded, inner surface smooth, brown, outer surface granular, brown with whitish scales, to about 8 cm across Flesh Thin, grey Smell Indistinct Taste Indistinct Season Summer to autumn Distribution Infrequent Habitat On burnt wood and on fire sites Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, warty (11-13) x (5-6.5)µm2. Asci (250-280) x (11-12)µm2. Asci tips blued in iodine. Paraphyses equal, septate, tips swollen, containing brown matter. Edibility Inedible 
6 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
6 October 2010 Surrey. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
25 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 25 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Paraphyses in Melzer's solution viewed with a x40 objective. 25 September 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |