Fuscoporia contigua

Dimitic hyphal system, with yellow, thick-walled skeletal hyphae up to 5 µm wide, and thin-walled hyaline generative hyphae 2 to 3.5 µm wide with simple septa.

Hymenial setae abundant, thick-walled, dark brown, with curved bulbous bases, projecting conspicuously above the basidia.

Tramal setae scattered, large, exceeding 100 µm in length, of similar morphology to hymenial setae.

Basidia clavate, short, only up to 16 µm long, without basal clamp connections.

Spores oblong to ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a minute inconspicuous lateral apiculus at one end, a large internal oil droplet, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2686/25.