Aleurodiscus wakefieldiae

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Aleurodiscus wakefieldiae

11 November 2025 Near Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Fruiting Body

Irregular, resupinate, thin, surface rough, pink, margin white

Smell

Indistinct

Taste

Not tasted

Season

Autumn to spring

Distribution

Rarely recorded

Habitat

On dead and dying wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech

Spore Print

White

Microscopic Features

Spores ellipsoidal, amyloid, decorated with spines, apiculus clearly seen (20-28) x (14-20) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Hyphal system monomitic, clamps present. Hyphidia warty, gloeocystidia present but few in number.

Edibility

Inedible

Aleurodiscus wakefieldiae

Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 11 November 2025 Near Beaulieu, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Aleurodiscus wakefieldiae

16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.

Aleurodiscus wakefieldiae

Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 October 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin.