30 August 2010 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Goblet shaped, inner and outer surfaces smooth, stem cylindrical and sometimes rudimentary, white, darkening with age, to about 4 mm tall Flesh Thin, fragile Taste Uknown Season All year Distribution Frequent Habitat On dead and dying herbaceous plants such as comfrey and thistle, favouring common stinging nettles, Urtica dioica, also recorded on twigs Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal to oblong, smooth, hyaline (7-12) x (3.5-5) µm2 Edibility Unknown, but too small to be of culinary value Notes Despite its appearance this species is a basidiomycete and not an ascomycete. |