Hyphodermella rosae

Basidiome entirely resupinate, cream-white, soft in consistency, with wart-like outgrowths giving a rugose or irregular surface.

Monomitic hyphal system, with hyaline generative hyphae, thin- to slightly thick-walled, 2.5-3.5 µm wide, septate with simple septa (clampless).

Cystidia absent, but with hair-like terminal hyphae, cylindrical, very slender, with rounded apices, projecting above the level of the basidia.

Basidia subcylindrical to clavate, 25-35 µm long and 5-7 µm wide, simple-based, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an inconspicuous, more or less central apiculus at one end, faint vacuolar internal content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP1968/23.