5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Forming a layer on the substrate, thin, easily detached, smooth or with teeth, whitish to ochraeous, margin ill defined, sometimes with rhizomorphs Flesh Soft Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded but apparently quite common Habitat On dead wood, mostly from deciduous trees, and on dead Ganoderma australe basidiomes Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, warty (4-4.5) x (3-3.5) µm2. Basidia cylindrical to club shaped, four spored, with basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae with clamps. Cystidia absent. Anamorph present, conidia formed by the separation of short celled hyphae. Edibility Inedible 
A close up view of the surface. 5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores and conidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium with basal clamp in Congo Red solution viewed with a x40 objective. 5 March 2022 The Vyne, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |