Habitat Description: Incubated deer dung

Odor:
Taste:

Chemical Tests:

Other Distinctive Features:

Microscopy:
Spores (immature!?):
(9.3) 9.6 - 11 (11.4) × (7.6) 7.8 - 8.4 (9.1) µm
Q = (1.1) 1.15 - 1.35 (1.4) ; N = 16
Me = 10.3 × 8.1 µm ; Qe = 1.3

Substrate: bark of living Bedfordia salicina. Description: several scattered pseudoaethalia, pinkish brown, 2 mm diameter. Hypothallus: membranous, pinkish brown. Peridium: fugacious, reddish brown. Capillitium: tubular, simple, looped, scantily branched, some swellings and swollen free ends. Spores in clusters of 3–8, warted, especially on outer surface, 10 µm. Notes: One collection only. (Mine has been eaten and only the hypothallus remains.)
This species is in a list of myxomycete taxa with clustered spores; considered rare (i.e. known only from 2–20 collections. (Schnittler & Mitchell 2000 ‘Species diversity in Myxomycetes based on morphological species concept.’ Stapfia 73: 55–62.)

Sporocarps stalked sporangia ~1mm tall, gregarious, nodding, white.

Sporothecae globose, ~0.5mm diameter.

Stalk calcareous, white with some yellowish near tip and black at base.

Peridium with thick round limes and metallic.

Dehiscence floriform.
Capillitium colourless.
Spores brown, warted, 7.49-8.85micron in diameter, with some darker group warts.
Appears to have pseudocolumella.

Image 1 n 2 taken in the field with Olympus Tough Tg-6

Image 3-7 are stacked composites.

Image 9-10 were taken with specimen viewed under optical compound microscope without cover slip.

Sporocarps formed on a small bryophyte-covered stump north of big tree. This is the first record of the species on this stump. The fruiting bodies didn't mature properly, possibly because of the weather and I collected them too early.
The blebs appeared on leafy liverwort (probably Bazzania), which is unusual as they seem to prefer mosses and shun liverworts.

Growing underwater in the river at a depth of about a third of a meter. Location was almost the same as a sighting from the previous week
Spores: (10.2) 10.3 - 11.5 (12.1) × (6.1) 6.3 - 6.65 (6.7) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.8 ; N = 9
Me = 11.1 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.7

11.53 6.39
10.62 6.46
11.33 6.68
11.09 6.51
10.21 6.14
10.33 6.43
11.54 6.27
10.83 6.55
12.13 6.65

On a small hardwood branch with the bark beginning to fall away. Note the white lesions in the bark and wood beneath. Perithecia up to 1mm wide by 1.5mm tall.

Asci: 153-168 x 7.5-10µm. The spore bearing part 105-125µm. IKI+, the apical plug about 2.5 tall x 3µm wide when mature; much longer in immature asci.

Spores: 13-14 x 6-7µm, brown, ellipsoid to inequalateral ellipsoid, guttulate, usually with one large guttule at the center, with a very inconspicuous germ slit less than spore length.

Sitting on the surface with squirrel tooth marks on it under Eastern White Pine and Nordmann fir. Smells mushroomy, but also a bit like drying latex paint. Taste mild, pleasant but not a lot of flavor. @tombigelow suggested Melanogaster tuberiformis before I even got it home. Spores brown, 13-18.8 x 8.2-11.4µm

Spores
19-22.6 x 12.9-14.5µm
Av. Length: 20.3µm
Av. Width: 13.6µm
Q: 1.5
N=15

Hairs
865-1279 x 36-47µm … (4 hairs above 1200)
Av. Length: 1069µm
Av. Width: 41µm
Hair Wall Thickness:
Av. Thickness: 5.7µm
4.5-6.9µm
Septa: 13-19