20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Fan shaped, covered with fine white scales, dark brown to whitish, laterally attached to the substrate, to about 4 cm across Gills Decurrent, white Stem Short or absent, tapering towards the base, whitish Flesh White to brownish Smell Mealy Taste Mealy Season Autumn Distribution Very rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores broadly ellipsoidal (5-6.5) x (3.5-4.5) µm2. Basidia 2 or 4 spored. Gill metuloids spindle shaped, thick walled. Clamp connections present in the cap hyphae. Notes Apparently often confused with H. petaloides which grows on the ground. Both collections shown were growing on the trunk of a fallen beech tree. 
20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X immersion objective. 20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Gill cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 20 September 2025. Near Lyndhurst, New Forest, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Metaloids viewed with a 40X objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Metaloid viewed with a 40X objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Clamp connections in the cap cuticle viewed with a 40X objective. 29 October 2013 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |