Resupinatus applicatus

On decaying broadleaf wood on the ground, with sessile, stemless basidiomes; pileus hemispherical, cup-shaped, 0.5 to 1 cm in diameter, greyish brown; grey lamellae radiating from a central or slightly eccentric point of attachment; flesh gelatinous in texture, without distinctive odor or taste.

Cuticle formed by filamentous hyphae, densely interwoven, 2 to 4 µm wide, branched, separated by gelification, with brownish intracellular pigment, septate and clamped.

Cheilocystidia sometimes difficult to observe, cylindrical, branched, coralloid in shape, 12 to 14 µm long and 3.5 to 6 µm wide.

Lamellar trama irregular.

Basidia clavate, 22 to 26 µm long, 6.5 to 7.5 µm wide, with sterigmata up to 5 µm, basal clamp connections and four-spored.

Spores globose to subglobose, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 4 to 5 µm in diameter, with a minute apiculus at one end, slightly opaque granular content of small oil droplets, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2061/24.