25 December 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Crust-like, usually also bracket-like, upper surface finely velvety, whitish, then orange-brown, sometimes with a green algal coat, underside orange-brown Flesh Thin, ochraceous Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Very common Habitat On living and dead wood from deciduous trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to cylindrical, smooth, hyaline, amyloid (5-8) x (2-3.5) µm2. Basidia cylindrical, 4-spored. Hyphal system dimitic. Clamp connections absent. Pseudocystidia cylindrical, hyaline to yellowish with rounded apices. Acutocystidia cylindrical, with acute apices. Edibility Inedible 
25 December 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image showing the hairy cap surface and edge. 25 December 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 25 December 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |