Tomentella ferruginella

On dead decaying wood or bark on the ground, with resupinate basidiomes, reddish-brown, with a smooth to slightly granular surface, soft and cottony consistency, and a slightly paler, diffuse growing margin.

Monomitic hyphal system, with subicular and subhymenial hyphae of identical morphology, thin- to slightly thick-walled, 4 to 10 µm wide, hyaline or with brownish intracellular pigment, profusely branched, septate, and generally with clamp connections.

Without cystidia.

Basidia cylindric-clavate, 40 to 50 µm long, 7 to 9 µm wide, generally with basal clamp connections, 4-spored.

Spores subglobose, thick-walled, irregular in outline, pale brown under the microscope, 6 to 8 µm long, 5.5 to 7 µm wide, ornamented with coarse warts, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2084/24.