A crust and a very strange tiny!

[JennyS]

Picked up a rotting deciduous stick, approx 4-5cm thick, to look closer at the toothed white crust on it ....



and then spotted these, approx 1-2mm high. They seemed to (possibly) be emerging from below the crust



After a couple of hours in the warm and dry they looked like this



The colour's not good as I had to use flash but they were a definite pink-brown colour.
All and any clues to their identity would be very appreciated - initially I'd thought lichen but I can't find any Caliciales that seem to match.

[fairplay]

Hi Jenny,

Your first photo looks like Steccerinum ochraceum (a tooth fungus) but yours seem to be forming little brackets which I've never come across before.

The others are of myxomycetes which I know very little about (although I found a new species for my county yesterday)

Neil.

[mollisia]

Hello,

your first one is a Steccherinum, but needs microscopy. There are more then one (e.g. S. bourdotii).

best regards,
Andreas