14 March 2026 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Cap Cup shaped, expanding with age, inner surface smooth, pale brown to chestnut brown, outer surface scurfy, pale brown to brown, to about 10 cm across Flesh Firm, brittle Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Infrequent Habitat On soil, on rotten wood and on rotten wood chips and sawdust Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, finely warty (15-20) x (8-10)µm2. Asci 8 spored, tips blued in iodine. Paraphyses thin, cylindrical, septate, tips swollen. Edibility Unknown Notes The 14 March 2026 specimens were independently identified by Leif Goodwin and Eric Janke. The 2023 specimen was found by the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group and identified by DNA sequencing carried out by Eric Janke in collaboration with the BMS. 
14 March 2026 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
14 March 2026 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 14 March 2026 Franchises Wood, Wiltshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found by the HFRG. Identified by Eric Janke. On a fallen beech tree. 20 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Lactophenol Cotton Blue solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 20 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
On a rotten tree stump. 29 July 2023 Hursley, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |