Phlebia livida

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Phlebia livida

16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Fruiting Body

Resupinate, thin, smooth or lumpy, colour variable, whitish, greyish, pinkish, violaceous, reddish brown or blue

Flesh

Gelatinous, firm

Smell

Indistinct

Season

All year

Distribution

Uncommon

Habitat

On dead wood from deciduous trees

Microscopic Features

Spores suballantoid, smooth, containing one or two oil drops (5-6) x (2-2.5) µm2. Basidia slender, club shaped, four spored. Leptocystidia thin walled, cylindrical, slender, tapered at the apex. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present.

Notes

The specimen shown was found by Paul Hugill and subsequently identified by DNA sequencing carried out by Eric Janke in association with the BMS

Phlebia livida

16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Phlebia livida

Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 April 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.