Sporophores: sporocarps and plasmodiocarps, subglobose, 0.8-2.0 mm diam. x 0.7-0.8 mm tall, crowded on branch of subalpine shrub. Hypothallus: extensive, coated in lime granules, forming a mound under the sporophore. Peridium: double; outer lime crust eggshell smooth to granular, easily separating from, membranous inner layer that appears blackish, iridescent, or greyish white when coated in fine lime, clear to yellowish-orange by TL; granules 2.4-4.5 um. Columella: absent or formed by a convex thickening of the basal plate, ochraceous to light orange, elongated. Capillitium: radiating from columella and connecting to peridium, simply branched, threads 0.9-2.8 um, straight or slightly flexuous, pale brown, becoming thinner and hyaline toward ends, ornamented with warts, nodules, dark brown fusiform swellings and occasional darker brown membranous expansions at axillary nodes. Spores: (9.1)9.5-12.5(15.0) µm, dark brown, spinose (baculate?), spines/baculae sometimes converging in short rows.
Growing on eucalyptus bark in a moist chamber. Short ended elaters and yellow spores with warts.
For the bees... not the banana bud (Musa acuminata)
Growing on Banksia marginata bark in a moist chamber.
AB 4. Kennedy Lake Protected Natural Area. On rotting wood of large white (?) pine, Pinus strobus (?) trunk. Developed in moist chamber. Identification noted in attached photo.
Growing on Banksia marginata bark in a moist chamber.
Spores are evenly warted and sizes 8.6-10.6um.
A collar remnant of peridium is seen on most.
The tallest sporocarp was used in the size comparison with 1mm divisions.
Sporocarps: 0.7-01.0 mm TH, ovoid. Stalk: very short to absent, 0.1-0.2 mm. Sporothecae: 0.7-0.8 x 0.4-0.5 mm diam. Spores: (5.3)5.6-6.3(6.4) µm, very pale brown, warted, ornamented with sinuous bands forming an incomplete reticulum. On decorticated conifer wood along with Licea variabilis. Small clusters of a few sporocarps.
Elevation about 1422 feet above sea level . It was chasing a probable Red Admiral earlier .
RD00758
On firm rotten confier wood by Langill Creek. Spores clustered, 9-12um, with small spines on the outer sides. Capillitium sparse, spiral bands, some knobs.