Kneiffiella cineracea

Monomitic hyphal system, with smooth, hyaline, moderately thick-walled subicular hyphae, very slender (up to only 3 µm wide), with clamped septa.

Cystidia scattered, leptocystidioid, thick-walled, with rounded apices, up to 120 µm long, projecting well above the basidia.

Basidia clavate, rather short, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores cylindric-ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with a lateral apiculus at one end and faint vacuolar content.

Herbarium material available: JTP2489/25.