Thread: What the heck?
View Single Post

  #5 (permalink)  
Old 22-02-2008, 05:34 PM
Leif Leif is offline
Commander of the Wild Empire
 
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Hindhead
Posts: 1,013
Re: What the heck?

That looks like Cudoniella clavus given that the specimens appear quite large.

Here are some I found in Spring 1998.



Here is my description:

"milk tooth like jelly fungus on damp debris in bog diameter about 6mm. Top white smooth, sides white warty. Spores spindle shaped, smooth, no droplets, [snip] = (9-10)x4 um2."

Mine were found on very damp woody debris in a wet ditch, near lots of Mitrula paludosa. The damp habitat is usual and matches your specimens. I note that yours seem to have a roughness along the sides as do mine. But yours seem to have yellow-brown at the 'stem' base. According to the Swiss guides, the specimens are concave when young, so yours might be immature.

There is also the smaller C. aciculare/acicularis.

As for the bryophyte, pass.
Reply With Quote