Mystery species

A common species which I get the same results for every time - oodles of spores and a blobby globose frogspawn type of affair with little sign of cystidia or sterigmata anywhere. I think it prefers conifers if I remember rightly

Cullaloe corticioid carnage, 19/11/2016, part four

Resinicium bicolor

Dry gill microscopy - Conocybe sp. (?)

A brief experiment with dry microscopy of agaric lamellae, pic 2 onwards at x400

"Excavated" slide made by gluing slips to either end

hymenium

cheilo-features

cheilo-features

cheilo-features inc. basidia

Cullaloe corticioid carnage 19/11/16, part four

Eichleriella deglubens

Vuilleminia comedens

 

 

Cullaloe corticioid carnage 19/11/16, part three

Field photos

Eichleriella deglubens

Stereum sanguinolentum

Lyomyces sambuci

Fuscoporia fellea -... maybe ...

Cullaloe corticioid carnage 19/11/2016, part two - tomentella

A fine looking species found on a couple of samples taken from the field, this one was recorded as T.sublilacina

Website with keys to Tomentelloid species:
Tomentella and related genera

and a key to the genus Tomentella:
The genus Tomentella key

Cullaloe corticioid carnage 19/11/2016, part one

Tubulicrinis subulatus

Prominent rooted cystidia

Allantoid spores

Hyphodontia alutaria

Long cystidia prominent (recalling Tubulicrinis)

Lacrymoid/pip shaped spores

Clamped cystidia

Clamped septate cystidia

Abundant lagenocystidia

Sistotrema brinkmannii
6-spored, no cystidia, spores hyaline thin-walled J-

Slightly arachnoid snowy texture

Short stubby sausage spores