Found and identified by Paul Hugill. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Synonymns Asterostroma medium Fruiting Body Resupinate, thin, smooth to somewhat lumpy, porulose under a hand lens, cream to pale ochraceous, often with purple patches, margin fibrous to web like, sometimes with mycelial cords Flesh Soft, cream to ochraceous Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat Usually on dead wood from deciduous trees, but also recorded on dead wood from conifers, and organic debris Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores sub-spherical with blunt spines to 2 µm long, amyloid (4-5.5) µm wide. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae thin walled, septate, clamps absent. Basidia utriform 4 spored. Gloeocystidia fusiform to ventricose. Asterohyphidia present, dextrinoid 
Found and identified by Paul Hugill. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Asterohyphidia, gloeocystidia and a basidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Independently identified by Leif Goodwin and Paul Hugill. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Independently identified by Leif Goodwin and Paul Hugill. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Asterohyphidia and a basidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
13 December 2025 Denny Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Asterostroma cervicolor on the left (pinkish) alongside Trechispora cohaerens on the right (pale yellow). 13 December 2025 Denny Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 13 December 2025 Denny Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Setae in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 13 December 2025 Denny Wood, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |