Dacrymyces variisporus

Monomitic hyphal system, with slender filamentous hyphae, widely separated by gelatinization and with clamped septa.

Basidia furcate (tuning-fork-shaped), with two long sterigmata and basal clamp connections.

Spores cylindric-allantoid of very variable size, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a lateral apiculus at one end, becoming up to 7-septate transversally at maturity (septa much more visible in Melzer's reagent).

Herbarium material available: JTP2105/24.