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N.C.W. Beadle Herbarium, UNE: UNE-AH 1350

A dark red to burgundy coloured cap, up to 12mm across. Cap is convex with a very fine, matte velvet texture. Margin is smooth. Gills are a dark golden/orange colour. Ring is not apparent. Stem is smooth, mostly the same colour as the cap with lighter striations. Spore print is a tan/rust colour. Growing on burnt bole of a Eucalyptus saligna, adjoined to a rough barked eucalyptus.

Sessile, globose, a black very shiny surface, 70-150 um diameter. Surface pale greenish by TL with very flexuose small net lines (hyphae?). Dark spore mass, by TL greenish, smooth, widely elliptic, pore at one end, c. 12 x 8 um. Grown in moist chamber from a dead branch.

Tiny pins 0.4 - 0.8mm high growing on a dead twig from a Pomaderris aspera. First 3 photos are taken with a 10x microscope objective. Spores are also tiny. Microscope was not calibrated but when view on 100x oil immersion objective they were still very small. Possibly only 2-3 micron?