Skeletocutis lilacina

On decaying coniferous wood on the ground, especially Picea, with resupinate basidiomes up to 6 cm across and 1 to 1.5 mm thick; pore surface lilac with greyish tints, with a white growing margin, 5 to 6 angular pores per mm, and tubes up to 1 mm long.

Hyphal system dimitic, with thick-walled skeletal hyphae present only in the trama, without septa, 2 to 4 µm in diameter; generative hyphae hyaline, 2.5 to 4 µm in diameter, often encrusted, septate and clamped.

Cystidia absent, but scattered hyaline, fusiform cystidioles present, 8 to 14 µm long and 3 to 5 µm wide.

Basidia subcylindrical to clavate, 11 to 15 µm long, 5 to 6 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and four-spored.

Spores allantoid, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 3.5 to 4.5 µm long, 0.7 to 1.1 µm wide, with small oil droplets inside located preferably at the poles, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.