23 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, loosely attached to the substrate, smooth or bumpy, whitish, cream, beige or orange, margin white and fibrous, forming patches several cm across Flesh Whitish, waxy Smell None according to the literature. Distribution Common Habitat On dead wood, usually from deciduous trees, rarely from conifererous trees Spore Print White Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (5-7) x (3-3.5) µm2. Basidia clavate, four spored. Hyphal system monomitic. Cystidia thick walled, cylindrical to needle shaped, upper part heavily encrusted. Edibility Inedible Notes The 2020 specimen shown had an unpleasant smell like Lepiota cristata. 
23 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 23 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 23 December 2025 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
13 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 13 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 13 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Tissue fragment with cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 10X objective. 13 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Cystidia in Congo Red solution viewed with a 40X objective. 13 November 2020 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |