16 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Urn shaped, outer surface greyish, rough, with a whitish margin, inner surface grey, smooth, about 0.5 mm across, growing in swarms that can be more than a meter across Smell Indistinct Season Autumn to spring Distribution Rare Habitat On very rotten wood from deciduous trees, most often recorded on willow, beech and birch Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores spherical, smooth (4.5-5.5) µm Edibility Inedible Notes To the naked eye this fungus looks like a dull grey resupinate fungus. A loupe reveals the individual cups. It could be confused with several species including Merismodes anomola. 
16 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the first image. 16 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 16 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |