Hypochnicium bombycinum

An autumn resupinate species, cream-white, with a rugose surface and waxy consistency that tends to crack upon dehydration.

Monomitic hyphal system, with hyaline generative hyphae, thick-walled, 2-5 µm wide, septate with clamped septa.

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 50-60 µm long and 7-10 µm wide, with basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, moderately thick-walled, with an inconspicuous lateral apiculus at one end, vacuolar internal content, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.