24 January 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Forming a thin loosely attached layer on the substrate, with an irregular pore structure, 2 to 5 pores per mm, base fibrous, margin fibrous, with rhizomorphs Flesh Fragile, fibrous, whitish to pale ochraceous Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Frequent Habitat On dead wood from deciduous and coniferous trees, and on woody debris Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores subspherical, coarsely warty (3.5-4.5) x (3.5-4.5) µm2. Basidia cylindrical, four spored, with a basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2 to 3 µm wide, some encrusted, occasionally swollen at septa, clamps present. Cystidia absent. Edibility Inedible 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 24 January 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 24 January 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hypha swollen at a septum in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 24 January 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Hyphae with clamps and a swollen septum (to the left) in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 24 January 2022 Bramdean Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |