A close up of the surface. 11 December 2021 Beech, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Forming a layer on the substrate, thin, smooth to lumpy, yellowish, ochraceous or brown Flesh Soft, gelatinous Smell Indistinct Season Winter Distribution Unknown Habitat On dead wood from beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores narrowly ellipsoidal, smooth (3.8-4.5) x (1.7-2.3) µm2. Basidia narrowly clavate, four spored. Cystidia absent. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present. Edibility Inedible Notes The specimen was DNA tested by Eric Janke of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group in collaboration with the BMS. The tests showed it to be an as yet undescribed species with a match to the unnamed sequence MW163981 from Italy. 
11 December 2021 Beech, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 11 December 2021 Beech, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 11 December 2021 Beech, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium with basal clamp in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 11 December 2021 Beech, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |