Steccherinum fimbriatum

On decaying broadleaf wood on the ground, with completely resupinate basidiomes; verrucose surface, pinkish brown to pinkish grey, with warts or minute aculei up to 0.5 mm high, and a growing margin with abundant whitish rhizomorphs.

Hyphal system dimitic, with hyaline skeletal hyphae, thick-walled, 3 to 6 µm wide; and hyaline generative hyphae, thin- to moderately thick-walled, 2 to 4 µm wide, septate and clamped.

Cystidia thick-walled, with abundant surface encrustations, projecting 25 to 40 µm above the hymenium, 5 to 9 µm wide.

Basidia cylindrical-clavate, 15 to 20 µm long, 4 to 5 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and four-spored.

Spores ovoid to short-ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, 3.5 to 4.5 µm long, 2.2 to 2.7 µm wide, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, containing small oil droplets inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2780/26.