Earthstars - long time coming

After what seems like an unreasonable wait to see my first earthstar I finally found some only 2 metres away from the back garden of my new house!

Inocybe not rimosa

Found some nice Inocybe under the scots pines at Cullaloe LNR and thought my luck was in - finding an easily ID'd Inocybe at Cullaloe to add to the fungal list. It's clearly I.rimosa, isn't it?

in situ

Taking a sample for home I began he chopping and keying. But then this happened ...

pleurocystidium

... well, that wasn't supposed to happen. First couplet of the Inocybe key in FN and we're off track already. We're not even going to the "right" subkey. I.rimosa doesn't have pleurocystida like this. Therefore it's something else.

Are the cystidia strongly yellow in KOH? Well, they ARE yellow but "strongly" is a stretch and anyway such things are always variable and the description is a subjective one:

hymenium in 3% KOH

Does it have a pinkish tinge to the stipe apically? Well, I can sort of see that:

stipe

I still don't have a final determination for it, but I will assemble this here for later expansion should one arise.

Additional photographs

Spores (brown, thin-walled, ellipsoid, c.9x5u):

Caulicystidia (upper stipe only)

Phlebia tremellosa, Mossmorran

An unpromising piece of bark beside the fallen water margin turned up a lovely dried out jelly rot, which although still jelly-like was remarkably firm compared to its wet state

Phebiella (Aphanobasidium) pseudotsugae, Devilla Forest

The second time I've had this species on Pinus sylvestris, it's always fun to see the pleural basidia, which in the beginning just look weird until you twig to what's going on.

Resinicium bicolor, Bavelaw 21/08/2016

Many tiny teeth. Inside stars and and halocystidia. Very nice.

Jellybabies

at Mossmorran. Lovely

Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides, Red Moss

Once I got over the idea that the piece of herbaceous stem I had in my hand was Juncus I was able to track this down to Phaeosphaeria herpotrichoides. Should help identify its cohabiting smaller pyrenomycete too.

Tucked under the surface with ostiole exposed

Spores olivey-yellow en masse in the asci

Typical Leptosphaeria (s.l.) spore bulge

Curious - a stretched ascus?