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On very rotten hardwood. Shady woods. Botryobasidium species are hard to ID to species level only with the presence of their asexual stage, which is the case here. The size of the conidia varies enormously. Before the conidia matures: ~14.8-13.5 x 9.8 um. The hyphae narrow towards the fertile tips; they are wider towards the base of the conidiophores: ~11.1 - 4.9 um wide.

Perhaps ciliatus. On rotten hardwood. Sharing the substratum with Polyporus tuberaster. Cap is 2.3 cm; foot is 4mm. 2 pores per mm; they descend onto the foot but as not as deep as on the cap. Fibrose margin of cap. Cap has some scales. Two units at some distance of each other. Photos 3 & 4 were taken three days later. The biggest odd spores were 19.6-16 x 4.9 um. Polyporus tuberaster was growing on the same tree: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/215220419

Two units of small size. Under hardwoods. Shady woods. Caps with prominent umbo. Specimen examined: cap 13mm; stipe 2 cm. Gills are attached with a decurrent tooth. Stipe had a silky aspect and fell apart very easily (longitudinal rags). Herbal smell detected from cap. Cap has a fine fibrose aspect. Stipe base has a compact aspect where the mycelium trapped organic debris; only few fine white fibers were seen around it.

On hardwood debris. Shady woods. Area is subject to temporal flood in winter. Cap 1.5 cm; stipe 5.5 cm, enlarged at base and with extended mass of mycelium of 1 cm long. Stipe is fibrose and has exerted caulocystidia. It has a difficult to describe smell of ointment and herbs; weak.

On debarked hardwood stick. Shady woods. Single. Microscopy was focused on the brown area around the pseudo stipe. It is composed of golden brown hyphae (or cheilocystidia?) with a clamp at base. The rest of the cheilocystidia on the gills doesn't have this color. Cap was 19 x 10mm.

On Carpinus betulus small dead branch. Biggest perithecia 2.5mm; single to bunched. Shady woods. Crush gave a sepia-orange color in KOH; later it turned into a brown tone. Granules inside are of a dirty yellow tone.

Crust of gauzy aspect, growing on a rotten crumbly hardwood log; inside a wine cellar (dark and wet) in an abandoned convent. Crust is very thin and has cordons. At maturity it acquires a creamy tone. It peels off the wood as a veil or a very fine piece of textile. It is sharing the same log with Jackrogersella multiformis. Clamps are present on thin hyphae and lots of pointy/acicular crystals. Basidia very stout. Spores super tiny. The presence of the acicular crystals and small size of spores differentiates this species from T. farinacea and T. stellulata. My spores are smaller because it was hard to measure them so the ornamentation was not considered.

Three units. Brittle. Under hardwoods in shady forest. Examined specimen: cap 1.5 cm; stipe 3.6 cm and continuing on a 1.8 cm mycelium that packed soil around it. Although the soil was a bit moist, it hasn't rain for few weeks now. Caps were light in color. Gills decurrent forming some furrows on upper stipe.

Crust on Laurus nobilis, several decimeters in extent. Shady woods. The textured appearance is given by the presence of an ascomycete Nectria-like scattered and immersed. Gloeocystidia present and variously shaped. Spores are finely ornamented and had a strong reaction to Melzers.

Found on a barkless hardwood stick, in a riparian area. It has a bulb at its base. The stick was brought home and another unit fruited. From a 6mm primordia (2nd day), it expanded fully in the night to a 1.65 cm tall cap and 2.8 cm stipe (3rd day). In the morning of the 4rd day it collapsed.

In backyard. It presents golden oil cells on cap surface. Update: After examining several Parasolas, now I know that the golden cells are the beginning of the cap hairs! although spores don't match P. auricoma.

Biggest cup ever seen: 1 cm in diameter. Hairs are 1.5mm. On soil, among moss. Color is really a deep orange with some red in it. It has few pairs of setae inside a 'wing'/sheath. Rooting is narrow, from 1-2 'legs' on marginal setae; up to 4 on excipulum setae. Spores are all round.

6-7 pores per mm. Pore surface is even but pore shape is irregular; sometimes round or rectangular. Not margin. There was a hole on the wood so the polypore grew around it with the same style but I noticed exerted hyphal ends or cystidia. Margin has a lighter tone. On pine plank of a fallen ceiling/roof, second floor of an abandoned convent. The plank is very thin. Numerous fruitbbodies were present. Some were green from algae.

Side of rural road, with rich humus. Two units. The biggest specimen had a strange split appearance. When examined, the gills that were exposed acquired a different aspect than the rest and produced less spores! Cap has golden hairs. Cystidia were present on edge of gill but they presented themselves deflated. Stipe is brittle made of parallel inflated hyphae.

On unknown grass sp. growing along edge of rice fields. Rural road/Old Mondego River side. The fungus first appears as a gluey substance of cream color on the grass inflorescence; sometimes there were purplish spots. It matures to a muffin-like structure of light cream tone, full of single cells that reproduce by budding. The contamination was very extensive (several kilometers) along the corn fields.

The Gasteroid fungus has been attacked by an ascomycete. Its outer skin was 1.3 mm thick. Ornamentation on spores is ~2.4 um long. The gleba has a fainted marbled appearance near the outer skin. Top was 4.5 cm in diameter and the whole fruitbody was 7.5 cm long. On the ground, among hardwood leaves. This area is dark due to the tangled vegetation above.

The spots have a neat design and in the lighter colored ring there are 'pustules'-like structures. The third photo shows the dark round structures that are scattered on the leaf, besides the big spots.

P. flaccida var. crispulina (on hardwoods). Inside a dark wine cellar; in an abandoned convent. Up to 5 cm tall. Slender branches ending in several tips. KOH reacted to a light orange tone that fades quickly. Photo doesn't make justice to what we saw inside there. This one is younger.

On old hay and oil paint chips from wall. Halocystidia present. In the hall of a building of an abandoned convent. It is curious to notice that the crust is growing facing upwards! Most crust are hidden under wood and against the ground. Crust has an arachnoid aspect.

Cap 1cm; stipe 2.7 cm. Gills are spaced, with a decurrent tooth, and have a fibrose aspect due to the presence of the abundant cheilocystidia. Upper stipe is ornamented with caulocystidia. Two units on a roof beam; inside an abandoned convent.

On rotten hardwood buried under dead grass, in garden. Crust has fine hyphal threads, with loose aspect and craters. Basidia with basal clamp, six-spored (Photo is not the best to demonstrate it). Subhymenial hyphae with clamps 2.9-4.9 um wide. Cystidia scarce, with basal clamp. Lots of crystals.