25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Brown, granulose, thin, margin thread like, ochraceous Flesh Soft Smell Indistinct Taste Unknown Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat On rotten wood from deciduous trees favouring beech Microscopic Features Spores irregular, typically with two or three lobes (6-9) x (4.5-7) x (6-8) µm decorated with coarse spines about 1 µm long. Basidia narrowly clavate to subcylindrical, sinuous. Hyphal system dimitic with branched skeletal hyphae. Cystidia absent. Edibility Inedible Notes The specimen shown was DNA sequenced by Eric Janke in association with the British Mycological Society. The results were consistent with some DNA sequences labelled as T. punicea, unfortunately many others were seen to be distributed over several clades, hence no firm conclusions could be drawn. This genus requires further work to better define the species concepts, including reference DNA sequences. 
25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
A crop from the previous image. 25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a 100X immersion objective. 25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Basidium KOH solution viewed with a 40X objective. 25 October 2023 Preston Oak HIlls, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |