Lentaria epichnoa

General: Delicate lignicolous species with preference for conifer wood (particularly pine), displaying a coralloid growth habit, pure white coloration, and dextrinoid spores.

Hyphal system: Monomitic, composed exclusively of generative hyphae with thin to slightly thickened walls, hyaline, 3-11 µm wide, septate with clamp connections.

Cystidia: Absent.

Basidia: Clavate, 18-29 x 4-6 µm, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores: Ellipsoid, smooth, thick-walled, with a prominent eccentric apiculus, containing faint internal guttules, distinctly dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium voucher: JTP1979/23.