12 February 2022 Hall Lands, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Cup or disk shaped, with a short stem, inner surface smooth, grey, outer surface coarsely hairy, brown, margin pale, to about 0.5 mm across, forming distinct clumps of many fruiting bodies Smell Indistinct Season All year Distribution Rarely recorded Habitat In small clumps, on dead wood from deciduous trees, usually on twigs Microscopic Features Spores sausage shaped, smooth (7.5-11) x (2-3) µm2. Basidia four spored. Hairs at cap margin rough with smooth club shaped tips. Edibility Unknown but of no value Notes Unlike M. anomala, this species forms small distinct clumps rather than one large swarm. 
A crop showing the individual cups. 12 February 2022 Hall Lands, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. 
Spores in Melzer's solution viewed with a x100 immersion objective. 12 February 2022 Hall Lands, Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. |