Thaxterogaster purpurascens

Pileipellis with an outer layer of filamentous, slender hyphae, widely separated by gelatinization, interwoven, with abundant bluish-grey encrustations and coarse clamp connections. Below this layer, more compacted, much broader hyphae with short cells.

Lamellar edge without clearly differentiated elements from basidia or basidioles.

Basidia clavate, up to 33 µm long, with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal, slightly amygdaliform, thick- and verrucose-walled, yellowish-brown under the microscope with darker warts, with a slightly eccentric apiculus, and weakly to moderately dextrinoid in Melzer's reagent.