Tomentella badia

On decaying conifer wood or bark on the ground, especially Picea, with resupinate basidiomes, fibrous to cottony surface, brown to reddish-brown, with a paler growing margin.

Monomitic hyphal system, with thick-walled subicular hyphae, 3 to 7 µm wide, with brown intracellular pigment, unencrusted on their surface, septate with simple septa (without clamp connections).

Subhymenial hyphae thin-walled, hyaline, 3 to 6 µm wide, septate, and like the subicular hyphae without clamp connections.

Without cystidia.

Basidia cylindrical to clavate, sinuous, 45 to 80 µm long, 8 to 11 µm wide at the apex, simple-septate at base, 4-spored.

Spores globose to subglobose, yellowish-brown under the microscope, with slightly irregular outline, 7 to 8.5 µm long excluding ornamentation, 6.5 to 8 µm wide, ornamented with spines up to 2 µm high, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.