12 October 2024 Herriard Oak Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, covered with whitish, cream, yellowish brown or dark reddish brown spines which are conical, cylindrical or flattened and measure to about 7 mm long, margin white Smell Indistinct Season All year, mostly in the autumn and winter Distribution Rarely recorded but not uncommon in Hampshire Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, favouring beech Microscopic Features Spores subcylindrical, inamyloid (4-6) x (2-3) µm2. Basidia club shaped, 4 spored. Cystidia cylindrical to conical, abundant, heavily encrusted. Hyphal system monomitic, with clamps. Edibility Inedible Notes This species was first recorded in Britain (Surrey) in 1963 by Derek Reid 
12 October 2024 Herriard Oak Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 12 October 2024 Herriard Oak Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 12 October 2024 Herriard Oak Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 12 October 2024 Herriard Oak Common, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
7 September 2025 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 7 September 2025 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 7 September 2025 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by Eric Janke. 18 September 2022 Waggoners Wells, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 18 September 2022 Waggoners Wells, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 18 September 2022 Waggoners Wells, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On beech. Found and identified by members of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group. 26 February 2022 Franchises Wood, New Forest, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |