interesting Mycenoid, never seen anything quite like it. The fruit bodies had a slight blue/green coloration to the cap and a stipe transitioning to a yellowish hue at the stipe base
Stumped and delighted. What are these CONFECTIONS? The largest fruitbodies were 2mm to 2.5mm wide.
Note that the upper surface of the pileus has a dingy quality with fine hairs on top, At first glance they appear not to be stipitate, but there is clearly a stipe on many fruit bodies.
Also see obs fields
Specimen lost. But tissue was collected for sequencing.
Substrate: Decaying ʻŌhiʻa leaf.
Size: fruit-1.5 cm
On very decayed large beech, Fagus grandifolia. Same log as in these observations: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/121501883
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/177109318
sometimes growing in large numbers, densely and gregariously, see third image, always from exposed tree roots, in this case those of Thuja plicata (have also seen them grow from Madrone and decaying sword fern central root balls.)
Growing on the remnants of a Scleroderma? Perhaps Geastrum?
2nd set of photos from a separate cluster