Found and identified by members of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group. On fallen birch. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Resupinate, and/or forming brackets, upper surface whitish to reddish brown, zoned, underside decorated with chisel shaped teeth that grow to 2.5 mm long, cream to pale ochraceous, margin felty, white Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On dead wood from deciduous trees, holly and gorse Microscopic Features Spores ellipsoidal, smooth (4.5-5.5) x (3-5) µm2. Hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae clamped, thin walled, skeletal hyphae thick walled. Cystidia cylindrical, heavily encrusted at the apices. Basidia clavate, 4-spored, with a basal clamp. Edibility Unknown 
A crop from the previous image. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by members of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group. On fallen birch. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Found and identified by members of the Hampshire Fungus Recording Group. On fallen birch. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Congo Red solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 16 December 2023 Crab Wood, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |