27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, finely granular, cottony when viewed with a hand lens, pellicular, pale brown, to dark brown, to purple brown, margin fibrous Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season Uknown but probably all year Distribution Extremely rare. The photographs show the first confirmed British collection. Habitat On rotten deciduous wood Microscopic Features Spores irregularly globose (7-10.5) µm decorated with coarse spines about 1 µm long. Basidia clavate to sub-urniform 4 spored, often transversally septate. Hyphal system monomitic, with clamps. Hyphoid cystidia present. Edibility Unknown, of no value Notes The specimen shown was identified by Paul Hugill and confirmed by Leif Goodwin. This was also confirmed by DNA analysis carried out by Eric Janke of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group in association with the BMS. 
A crop from the previous image. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphae in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphoid cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 27 November 2022 Chappetts Copse, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |