Echinoderma perplexum

Pileipellis formed by parallel hyphae with slight intracellular pigment, up to 10 µm wide. Cuticular wart elements composed of globose, thick-walled sphaerocysts up to 120 µm or more wide, with abundant brown intracellular pigment.

Cheilocystidia abundant, multiform, ventricose to fusiform, lageniform, up to 27 µm long.

Basidia clavate, only up to 18 µm long, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores cylindric-ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, moderately thick-walled, with a lateral apiculus, strongly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.