13 October 2015 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Cup or clam shaped, expanding with age, inner surface lemon yellow or sulphur-yellow, underside pale, scurfy, with a prominent rooting stem, to about 4 cm across Flesh Brittle, whitish Smell Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Rare Habitat On soil with conifers Spore Print White Microscopic Features Ascospores ellipsoidal, patterned with a partially connected network (12-15) x (6-7.5) µm2. Asci 8-spored. Paraphyses cylindrical, sometimes branched, septate, curved, tips swollen. Edibility Inedible Notes Could be confused with yellow forms of Aleuria aurantia 
13 October 2015 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
13 October 2015 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in cotton blue viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 13 October 2015 Buckinghamshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |