A few for id, found Feb 23

[SheffieldLass]

The first one (well two) I was able to id.
Tremella encephala parasitising Stereum sanguinolentum on Corsican pine. There seemed to be quite a lot around.
Tremella encephala
Stereum sanguinolentum

I could find the basidia, but couldn't work out what were the spores though. Are the two tiny spherical blobs on the end of the stalks of the basidia (just left of centre) spores in development?




Then there were some small orange blobs on birch leaf litter. They were quite soft. They appear to be ascomycetes but not mature enough to be producing spores. Any ideas?




A Mycena under larch close to the trunk base, though growing from a flaccid root of something. (There is bilberry in the area, so not sure if it is that or a larch root.) The stem reminded me of Mycena polygramma, but it doesn't seem to fit. Also not the right associations. I couldn't find any clamps. Spores were amyloid, (9.5) 9.8-11.6 (12.9) x (5.8) 6.1-7.3 (8.2)um, Qav 1.6. Cheilocystidia not abundant .. I think the ones I'm showing are cheilocystidia, rather than protutruding hyphae - I had quite a few attempts to find them. Also some distinctive cells in the pileipellis. Smell typical Mycena, sort of nitrous, but not strongly smelling. Any ideas?


cheilocystidia?
spores and basidia 4 spored in melzers
Pileipellis with contorted cells.



Then this fungus which seemed to spread over anything ... mainly over a stump (probably corsican Pine) but also over leaves, bracken stems, needles. Hard to the touch, which I guess is from the abundant crystalised cells. I couldn't find any spores. There seems to be a lot of this around at the moment.


10x 40x.

Thanks for any pointers.
Cheers
Melanie

[flaxton]

Melanie
A Mycena with grooved/compressed stem blue/purple tinges to cap and stem with those shaped cheilocystidia fits perfectly with M diosma. The spores unfortunately are too big. Spores that size with a grooved/compressed stem fit well with M galericulata but not with those cystidia Andreas

[flaxton]

Even the new to me M dura which has white to pink white lamellae with a dark brown to brown-purple-pink pileus and a striate-grooved stipe has spores smaller than yours.

Mal