Vuilleminia comedens

On decorticated wood or fallen branches, especially of oak or alder, with completely resupinate fruit bodies, thin, with a smooth whitish to greyish surface with lilac tints, of waxy and gelatinous consistency, and with a diffuse but well-delimited growing margin.

Monomitic hyphal system, with subicular hyphae difficult to observe, hyaline, 1.5 to 3 µm wide, septate with clamp connections.

Dendrohyphidia abundant in the hymenium, heavily branched, coralloid in appearance, often with encrusting crystals on branch tips.

Basidia large, cylindric-clavate, 70 to 100 µm long by 10 to 14 µm wide, with basal clamp connections and tetrasporic.

Spores cylindrical, slightly allantoic, smooth, hyaline, thin-walled, with an eccentric apiculus at one end, 14 to 19 µm long by 4.5 to 6 µm wide, containing oil drops inside, and inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2204/24.