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Several units growing protected among pebbles, on rich soil and under a flowering plant. Spore print is of rusty tone. Striated cap. Garden. Spores have a thick wall and one of the ends is truncated. Cystidia at edge of gill 11.1 x 17.2(+) um some round and some with a capitate papilla. Unable to see basidia.

Black, very hard lichen, on standing hardwood. Wild area. Later, I submerged it in water for long hours and in reality, it has a beautiful green tone, almost transparent, and it is of foliose character.

Small polypore on hardwood branch. Wild area. 3 pores per mm. Hyphae of two kinds: skeletocystidia with thick walls and second one thin walls and with clamps, 2.4-2.9 um wide. Basidium 12.3 x 4.9 um with four sterigmata. Dissepiment edge has hyphae with incrustations and clamp at base 2.4-2.9 um wide. Spores with 1-2 drops 2.9 x 4.9 um.

Crust of chalky appearance, with abrupt margin and a brown edge around it. On bark of giant living oak or maple. Park. Spores are ornamented. Large 25.2 x 21 um. Others 18.5-20.9 x 16-17.2 um. Spore print white.

Cystidia 44 x 7.9 um on edge of gills with an inflated base, septa, narrow neck and rod crystals at tip. Basidia with four sterigmata 32.4 x 9.8 um. When I saw the ornamented spores I remembered that Russulaceae have a strong reaction to Melzer and indeed it did. Spores ornamented, with thick walls, and one drop 4.9-6.1 x 9.8 um. Spore deposit white. Gills are decurrent. In spite of being so wet, it didn't release latex. On ground under hardwoods. Park.
LOL! I was so wrong!

Resupinate polypore on Pinus rigidus. Park. Growing again on old self. 4-6 pores per mm. Pores have a sugary aspect. When younger pores are white and at maturity they take a grayish color. It has a stink bug smell. Skeletocystidia of various widths ~ 4.9 um. A second type of hypha was seen 2.4 um wide, with simple septa. No spores or basidia spotted.

Resupinate polypore on Pinus rigidus. Park. Pores with regular shape 5 per mm; pores are very varied in shape and size, even labyrinth-like. Polypore is very thin. 5-6 pores per mm when shape is regular. Various shapes/sizes of irregular pores seen. Halocystidia present 7.4 um cap diameter, 3.7 capitate end. Skeletocystidia 2.4-2.7 um; sometimes twisted, and anastomosing. Round crystals present. No basidia or spores seen.

On hardwood, swampy area. Park. Very peculiar aspect: it has mostly teeth (~3 per mm)but in some areas it almost look like opened pores. Very delicate aspect, with a fine margin. Rhizomorphs are also present. Spores with a drop 3.1-4.4um. Basidia 4.9 um wide, with a waist (unable to see its base) with four sterigmata. Abundant halocystidia; cap 7.4-9.8 um wide surrounding a capitate cystidia of 4.9 um wide. There are clamps on second type of cystidia which have a pointy end and crystals. Sweet fungus smell. Pure white. Delicate hyphal threads at margin.

Hardwood. park. Waxy teeth of various forms; sometimes looking like pores; bursting through cracks in the wood. Third photo shows it when wet. Sharing wood with Phlebiopsis crassa.
Negative reaction to Melzer. Skeletocystidia ~4.9-6.1 um wide; sometimes inflated. Some skeletocystidia have abundant simple septa on them. Some hyphae seem different to skeletocystida and have thinner walls 3.7-4.4 um wide. Basidia ~19-20.9 x 6.1-7.4 um. Unable to see one single spore. Very faint sweet smell detected. 2 'pores' per mm. Polypore is thick and has a fibrose margin.

On driftwood. Delaware River beach. Red-brick hairs-like structures bundled like cushions. When younger the bundles form round structures. Fungus is made of branching hyphae that have septa and ornamentation. Spores of various sizes 1.2-3.4 x 3.7-4.9 um.

On driftwood. Delaware River beach. Spores 9.8-12.3 um in diameter, coiled 3-3 1/2 times. Conidiophore erect, brown, septate and with a rooting system 48+ x 2.9+ um. Spores are born from vesicles that grow on the coniophores.

Hardwood. Delaware River beach. Waxy aspect of teeth. Crust is very delicate and of gelatinous aspect, falling apart when trying to get a sample. Pruinose from the abundant rosettes of crystals seen in the preparation. Spores are globose to subglobose ~7.4-8.6 um globose; and up to 7.4 x 8.6 subglobose. Clamps were seen in subhymenial hyphae 5.4 um wide. Teeth are of robust appearance. Teeth are scattered and almost 1mm long. When dry the crust turns waxy. Basidia 8.6 um wide have 4 sterigmata. Unable to see its base. There were few short scattered hyphae finger-like among palisade of basidia. There were also palisades of another long hyphae finger-like structures. Not 100% sure if there are gloeocystidia. I saw one structure looking like it but it could be a basidium: 44.7 x 7.4 um.

On driftwood. Delaware River beach. Found in the same area previously. Tough to touch. Barely forming caps. Coalescing structures, held to substratum by a central point. Some are growing only in resupinate form. Spores 2.4-3.7 x 3.7-4.9 um.

On hardwood (maple or tulip poplar). 2-3 pores per mm. Of gelatinous aspect; when touched it 'melts'. No clamps seen but simple septa on hyphal ends ~2.9-4.4 um wide with various forms, on dissepiments and on hyphae from context up to 7.4 um wide. It has an abrupt free margin. Smells intoxicatingly sweet. Spores ~7.4 x 3.7 um and smaller. Basidia have 4 sterigmata. Unable to see them free. Spores 3.7 x 7.4 um. Delaware River beach edge. Park.

Soft balls-like fungi connected by thick threads. On rotten wood in a swampy area. I found them again in December in another park, hidden under rotten wood. Pine Barrens both parks. Same as in this observation: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/143236634 Hysterangialea?

Crust of hard texture; hymenium is completely covered with brown setae. Hymenium is lighter than color of setae giving the crust this chocolate-milk tone. Setae ~ 8.6-12.3 x 55.2-69 um. Spores 1.9 x 4.9-5.4 um. On Pinus rigidus. Pine Barrens.

Big fruitbody of loose and gelatinose aspect. On Pinus rigidus that was against the swampy ground. Pine Barrens.Crust is iridescent in fresh and in dry state. Hyphae is cylindrical ~8.6-12.3 um wide with abundant simple septa. Subhymenial hyphae is yellowish in water, branching at a right angle.

Gelatinose teeth on a gelatinous subiculum. Teeth are ~ 0.6 mm long. they could be single, fork, several together, overlapping or erect. Halocystidia cap 12.3-14.8 um (resinous material) tip of cystidium is ~4.9um wide. At tip of aculei there are plumes of hyphal ends. Clamps were seen at base of cystidia. Unable to see basidia in detail. Wood is in rags. Seems like a white rot on hardwood. Maple sp. Swampy area. Pine Barrens.

Crust with fuzzy teeth; teeth fade towards margin and become of arachnoid aspect; subiculum also looks arachnoid; sweet smell; on Pinus rigidus. Teeth look delicate and spongy; up to 1mm long; cylindrical, pointy, single and divided. Teeth bend easily and some are growing curved; some lean against each other or fuse. Halocystidia base 4.9 um wide; cap 6.1 um wide. Second type of cystidia is ~2.4 um wide and 32 um long (exerted part). Clamps seen in thin subhymenial hyphae 2.4 um wide. Unable to see shape of basidia but saw 4 sterigmata with the spores.

Crust with teeth which have space around them (not crowded); fading towards margin to become just a light dust. On hollow decorticated deciduous wood. Pine Barrens. Teeth vary in appearance: some are pointy, some are forked, some are robust and some are thin. When younger they are white and iridescent, turning cream with a hint of pink. Subiculum is arachnoid(loose hyphae).

Troops of conidiophores with drops on top of them. Many times the drops which are holding the spores are forming bigger areas when they become fused. Decorticated hardwood. Pine Barrens. Someone suggested Codinaea.

On oak. Greenish tone of polypore when fresh. 2-1/2 - 3 pores per mm. Finely fibrose margin. Easy to take apart. After being wet, four days later it released an incredible sweet fungal smell. clamps are present. Spores 2.9 x 5.4 um.

On rotten hardwood. park. 8 pores per mm. It presents capitate cystidia with clamp at base, and constricted cystidia with thick walls. Some finger-like hyphae with incrustations present at edge of dissepiments. Spores 3.7-4 x 3.8-4.4 um. Red drops on pore surface.

On birch or cherry. 2 pores per mm. No particular smell after been wet. Actually, after several minutes it develops an incredible smell of something like a spice ( a mixed of something sweet and salty!). It has a round edge covered with short silky fibers. 1.7 mm long pores. Flesh is marbled and spongy. When younger, pores have a spongy silky aspect and color is like milk-cinnamon. Coalescing as it matures. Clamps are present, on skeletocystidia of 4.4 um wide. Two types of hyphae: skeletocystidia and another hyphae with clamps but without thick walls. Cystidia with incrustations at tip. Another cystidia with enlarged tip 5.4 um, and simple septa. Basidia 18.5 x 5.4 um with four sterigmata, a narrow base and basal clamp. Spore 2.4 x 7.4 um. Skeletocystidia were seen with constrictions and simple septa. Abandoned woods at edge of school. Trichaptum subchartaceum has been suggested by Garret Taylor.

Polypore was yellow sulphur in fresh state. It was growing on steps made of treated wood, in a park. 5-6 pores per mm. Pores can be flat and of irregular aspect but also inclined and opened/lacerate. In fresh state it had a fragrant smell of bar soap. In dry state it smells like milk! Pores depth 1.3 mm, forming wide sheets on vertical surface; delicate surface of pores. Flesh is dirty white. Negative reaction in KOH. Flesh is compact, made of simple, a bit curved hyphae with thick walls and drops. Spores ~1.8 x 4.2um. No micro photos available.

Crust of velutinose aspect due to the presence of abundant exerted lamprocystidia/metuloids. With red guttulations. Spores ~8.6 x 3.7 um. Lamprocystidia have a bulbous base and thick walls ~13.5-17.2 x 79.2-93 um. On decorticated rotten wood. Mixed woods. Coastal Pine Barrens. Crust was examined in dry state and it was of waxy consistency. No smell detected after being wet.

2 pores per mm. Flesh is marbled. Polypore seems perennial. Lighter tones of flesh fill up space between layers of pores. KOH turned dark brown-honey pore surface. Cap surface is not cottony but appressed chocolate hyphae. Its aspect reminds of cliffs or rock formations that are eroded. The tallest cap was 2.3 cm. Caps look like miniature hooves. Spores ~ 10.2-12.8 x 3.8-5.1 um. Skeletocystidia ~3.8 um wide and some kind of cystidia with broader tip and simple septa with thick walls. Clamps were seen. Melzer reaction amyloid. On beech. Park.

On beech. Seepage. Crust has cordons and teeth. Margin is fimbriate. Spores 2.4-2.9 x 4.9 um. Single and double clamps present with hyphae ~3.7-5.4 um. Skeletocystidia seen, some with ornamented tip, ~ 2.4 um wide. Crust grows on bark and also on Hypoxylon sp.

On beech. Seepage. Crust is very small. By chance it is growing on Hypoxylon sp. It is crowded with exerted cystidia which are covered with crystals. One measured 110.4 x 14.8 um. KOH didn't affect the crystals/ornamentation. Margin has big hyphae which are covered with fine crystals all over ~9.8-12.3 um and have simple septa and looks constricted at it. In one of the photos looks like there is a clamp but it was the only one seen. No basidia or spores were spotted. Subhymenial hyphae ~6.1-13.5 um with simple septa and constrictions. Crust looks smooth with a fine, arachnoid and fibrose margin. No sweet smell arose after being wet as it happens in other crusts. Crust is very thin, around 1" long.

Several decimeters in extent resupinate polypore. On hardwood fallen on the beach. Park. 2,5 pores per mm. Pores shine if seen from an angle. Margin is of fine aspect and cottony. Pores look finely velutinose.

Soft crust. In some areas there are some craters. This have been seen on other specimens. Cystidia with refractive contents, with narrow base ~57.6 x 12.3 um; some immerse and some exerted. Basidia with clamp at base 16-19.7 x 3.7-4.9 um. Subhymenial hyphae with thick walls, clamps, crystals, and with uneven width 2.9-4.9 x 4.4-5.4 um. Spores 5.1 x 2.9 um. On Pinus rigidus. Park.

Hardwood. Park. This resupinate polypore was several decimeters long. 1-2 pores per mm. Structures have a fuzzy aspect and margin is delicate and velutinose. Some cystidia seen, longer than 40.8 x 3.7 um wide. Younger basidia 14.8 x 6.1 um. Mild reaction if any to Melzer(drops disappeared).

On rotten dead and standing Atlantic white cedar. Thin, delicate and of poroid aspect crust forming some sort of patterning; thinning towards margin. Perhaps T. gracillimus. Spores are a bit narrow at distal end: 2.9 x 5.4 um. Basidia 17.2 x 7.4 um. Cystidia 24 x 4.9 but they are all missing the shape of the tip!, with simple and double rooting system. When dry it looks arachnoid.

On burnt Pinus rigidus. Pine Barrens. 3-4 pores per mm. Margin fibrose. Big fruitbody. Spores 2.7-2.9 x 6.5-7.9 um. Skeletocystidia 6.1 um. With clamps with a big space in the middle 2.2 um wide hypha. Some hyphal ends with crystals and ~ 3.7 um wide.

On rotten, deciduous wood, at edge of brook. Park. Spores are subglobose and finely ornamented ~7.4 x 6.1 um. Long gloeocystidia are present. Basidia are also long. Arms/tips of asterorosettes are 3.7 um wide. Resinous matter floating in preparation. Crust is thick and it was several decimeters long.

Crust was 5 feet long. On bark, not erumpent. Paper-like. When wet to soften it it becomes brown but after several minutes it turns white again! Surface looks velutinose. Crust is made of two types of hyphae: one looking like skeletocystidia and the other inflated, with dense walls, almost no space inside it, very long, and ending in a tip. On beech branch. Park.

On beech. Park. Thin ocher crust with scattered warts. In dry state it forms an interesting pattern of craters and isles that let the loose subhymenium be seen. It has inflated cystidia 51 x 10 um with a narrow base and the rest is palisades of basidia 22.2 x 6.1 um. , with four sterigmata, and clamp at base. Unable to see any spores. Margin of crust has random areas of only loosed subhymenium/subiculum. There are nodulose hyphae in subhymenium ~3.7 um; some of them are inflated and irregular in width. No sweet fungal smell released after being wet as it happens with a lot of crust that have been examined.

On rotten beech. Park. Not sure it is B. conspersum because the reproductive hyphal cells don't seem as crowded with the papillae where the spores are going to grow as i have seen often. Spores up to 18.5 x 12.3-12.8 um. Hyphae have not clamps 7.4-8.6 um.

Crust has some very delicate structures that look like transparent hairs. Micro reveals them to be some sort of gloeocystidia with granulose contents. There is also another type of cystidia ~8.6 x 61 um. Basidia 5.4 x 17.2 um have four robust sterigmata ~7.4 um long. Spores 10-14.8 x 4um. Some spores look like peanuts. There are clamps below basidia and in subhymenium, which has wide nodulose hyphae. Crust feels like some thick jelly. The preparation had to be clear with KOH. When trying to get a sample, the fragments fell apart for being so soft. (Some crust are tough to get a sample.) In swampy area. Hardwood was rotten and wet. Park.

Seems to be a complex group. Cystidia present with a variety of forms at tips. On hardwood. Hymenial surface presents fat teeth and warts. Margin thins out a bit presenting some fibrose aspect. Lots of cubic crystals and other shapes on hymenium layer. Basidia ~19.7 x 4.9 um with 4 sterigmata. Spores 2.9 x 7.9 um. No smell detected. (Many crust fungi release this wonderful sweet fungal smell after being wet.) Park.

When fresh it looks gelatinous and transparent. In dry state is almost invisible except for the white nucleus which are made of crystals. Spore print is white. Spores 2.9-4.4 x 7.4-8.6 um. Basidia look like a lollipop. On oak or beech. Park.

Very thin resupinate polypore with 8 round pores per mm. skeletocystidia exerted, with incrusted wider tip, ~8.6 um wide. Spores 2.7-2.9 x 3.7-4.9 um. In dry state pores look more fringed than when it is wet. It has a lighter and narrow margin. One capitate cystidium was seen. Spores On hardwood. Beech or oak. Park.

Growing on a huge, rotten hardwood. Side of brook. Abandoned community area. The fungus presents a stipe and shows a difference between the caps and the foot. Teeth are up to 1.8 mm long, pointy. Spore deposit is white and they measure ~2.4 x 4.9 um. This type of Steccherinum has been found in another park. In the second place, the fungus was growing on an erect manner on top of the wood. Fungus fuses. https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/62851683

It is completelly covering the hymenial surface of Peniophora albobadia. It even has a defined margin(sample at home does). Crust is very slippery; it could be ~ 1mm thick. The reproductive cell ~2.9 um wide can bear more than one spore; one at the tip and others on lateral lower tips. Spores have a thick apiculus (They kind of look like sausages) 14.8-18.5 x 2.9-4.9 um. It didn't give a spore print.

No spore print was obtained. Spore from preparation 3.7 x 4.4 um, subglose and with one drop. Moniliform cystidia and skeletocystidia (2.9 um wide) seen. Capitate cystidia 7.4 um at tip. Polypore is 2.5 mm thick. The new layer is 5mm thick. 5-6 pores per mm, lacerate, some times connected, with a sugary aspect given by the exerted cystidia and hyphae with incrustations (2.9um wide). Margin looks sugary. On oak or beech. Streched of abandoned land, along a creek. Neighborhood.

On rotten hardwood. Peliculose and iridescent. No spores detected. hyphae 8.6-14.8 um wide, cylindrical and branching at right angle; sometimes constricted at septa. No clamps seen. Basidia stout 9.8 x 14.8 um. Park.

Crust of delicate aspect. It has areas of gauzy aspect (subiculum/subhymenium) interspersed with hymenial areas. It has delicate rhyzomorphs. Spores ~6.9 x 4 um. Basidia ~27 x 3.7 um with clamp at base, and four sterigmata. There were some few cystidia with several clamp connections in rows, among basidia palisade. Clamps are present in subhymenial hyphae. On oak. Park.

Waxy crust with some warts and rhyzomorphs; of rubbery consistency and thick. Tough to get a sample. Spores 1.7-2.2 x 3.7-4.9 um. Basidia 22.2 x 4.9 um with four sterigmata. Gloeocystidia exerted, very long up to 146.4 um x 6.1 um. Subhymenial hyphae have clamps (double and simple), drops and other resinous contents. Nodulose hyphae below basidia. Crust has a velutinose aspect given by the exerted gloeocystidia. When in dry state it becomes horny. A beauty. On oak. Park.

Crust seems infertile. No basidia or spores were seen. On oak or beech. Only hyphae finger-like were seen at edge of hymenium 2.7 um wide. Subhymenial hyphae have simple septa ~3.7-7.4 um wide. One was seen with two clamps. Park.

On twig from a vine. Park. Crust has a mottled appearance given by the thick layer of acanthophyses on hymenium's surface. Spores are echinulate ~7.4-12.3 x 17.2-19.7 um. Acanthophyses stem from a central hyphae and branch in many finger-like projections(broom cells). No mature basidia seen. Tough crust to work with. KOH didn't dissolve the structures. Crust is flat. It doesn't have a raised margin but it is thick.

On oak or beech. Park. Helicospore is coiled 3- 3 1/2 times and measures ~12.3 um in diameter. It is born from an inflated structure at the 2/3 lower part of erect and septate conidiophore. Individual conidiophores ~384 um long, are attached to substratum by several root-like structures. The combination of the brown from the conidiophores and the hyaline tone from the helicospores creates an olive green tone to the eye.

On oak or beech. Park. 1-2 pores per margin. There is not a consistent margin present. Polypore is thick and ends abruptly in general. Setae are present everywhere 64.8 x 5.4 um. Skeletocystidia is yellow golden in water 2.7 um wide. Spores 7.9 x 4 um. No basidia spotted.

On beech. Park. Really neat crust. The teeth follow a vertical pattern and the margin follows a concentric one. There are 5-6 teeth per mm. Each one is covered with exerted skeletocystidia which have crystals. Some times the crystals are at the middle part of them. Lower part of skeletocystidia has thick walls. Some are constricted and some end in odd shapes. Some have simple septa. There are clamps present. Unable to spot basidia clearly although I obtained a white spore print. Spores 2.4-2.9 x 4.9-6.1 um. After wet crust becomes glossy in appearance and falls apart easily.