Collection 1. Identified by Eric Janke. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Scopuloides leprosa Fruiting Body Resupinate, smooth or lumpy, covered with small warts (visible with a hand lens), whitish, yellow or orange, sometimes with mycelial cords (rhizomorphs), margin fibrous Flesh Gelatinous to waxy, whitish to yellowish Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Very rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, often with one side concave, smooth (3.5-6) x (2-3) µm2. Basidia narrowly clavate, four spored. Hyphal system monomitic. Subhymenial hyphae with simple septa. Subicular hyphae infrequent, smooth or encrusted, generally with simple septa, rare fibulate septa may be present. Cystidia of two kinds. Lamprocystida abundant, fusiform, heavily encrusted. Leptocystidia infrequent, cylindrical, sometimes with swollen apex, base encrusted. Edibility Unknown Notes The Hampshire Fungus Group collected the specimens shown in Chappetts Copse, Hampshire, in November 2022. Curiously the species was quite common at that location, despite being very rarely recorded elsewhere. 
Collection 1. Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collection 1. Cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collection 2. Identified by Eric Janke. Note the mycelial cords. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collection 2. Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collection 2. Lamprocystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Collection 2. Leptocystidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |