Spores dark brown muriform, at least 6-8 transverse septa and numerous vertical

(measurements are of ejected spores):
28.2-36.5 x 11.7-15.6µm
Me: 33.9 x 13.5µm
Q 2.3-2.8
Qe 2.5
N=8

Spores in ascus are larger and golden brown.

Habitat Description: Incubated deer dung

Odor:
Taste:

Chemical Tests:

Other Distinctive Features:

Microscopy:
Spores (immature!?):
(9.3) 9.6 - 11 (11.4) × (7.6) 7.8 - 8.4 (9.1) µm
Q = (1.1) 1.15 - 1.35 (1.4) ; N = 16
Me = 10.3 × 8.1 µm ; Qe = 1.3

Substrate: bark of living Bedfordia salicina. Description: several scattered pseudoaethalia, pinkish brown, 2 mm diameter. Hypothallus: membranous, pinkish brown. Peridium: fugacious, reddish brown. Capillitium: tubular, simple, looped, scantily branched, some swellings and swollen free ends. Spores in clusters of 3–8, warted, especially on outer surface, 10 µm. Notes: One collection only. (Mine has been eaten and only the hypothallus remains.)
This species is in a list of myxomycete taxa with clustered spores; considered rare (i.e. known only from 2–20 collections. (Schnittler & Mitchell 2000 ‘Species diversity in Myxomycetes based on morphological species concept.’ Stapfia 73: 55–62.)

Sporocarps stalked sporangia ~1mm tall, gregarious, nodding, white.

Sporothecae globose, ~0.5mm diameter.

Stalk calcareous, white with some yellowish near tip and black at base.

Peridium with thick round limes and metallic.

Dehiscence floriform.
Capillitium colourless.
Spores brown, warted, 7.49-8.85micron in diameter, with some darker group warts.
Appears to have pseudocolumella.

Image 1 n 2 taken in the field with Olympus Tough Tg-6

Image 3-7 are stacked composites.

Image 9-10 were taken with specimen viewed under optical compound microscope without cover slip.

Sporocarps formed on a small bryophyte-covered stump north of big tree. This is the first record of the species on this stump. The fruiting bodies didn't mature properly, possibly because of the weather and I collected them too early.
The blebs appeared on leafy liverwort (probably Bazzania), which is unusual as they seem to prefer mosses and shun liverworts.

Growing underwater in the river at a depth of about a third of a meter. Location was almost the same as a sighting from the previous week
Spores: (10.2) 10.3 - 11.5 (12.1) × (6.1) 6.3 - 6.65 (6.7) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.8 ; N = 9
Me = 11.1 × 6.5 µm ; Qe = 1.7

11.53 6.39
10.62 6.46
11.33 6.68
11.09 6.51
10.21 6.14
10.33 6.43
11.54 6.27
10.83 6.55
12.13 6.65

Spores 73-86μm x und 8.5-11.5μm. Extremely tomentose, multiple fruitbodies covered by a black, mycelial weft Pseudothecia up to 0.6mm wide.

7-11 celled, 8 cells most common, followed by 9 and 10 cells, 11 and 7 cells rare

Growing on dung of Branta canadensis

Mentioned by Richardson from Iceland; undescribed

New clade, potentially in Preussia rather than Sporormiella

Matches a soil sample from the Tibetan plateau with 3bp difference (4600m altitude) and two Estonian soil samples

For phylogenetic tree see last picture

LSU sequence OR226402

Holotype for Sporormiella tela, published in North Eastern Naturalist February 2024, Sporormiella tela, a New Species of Pleosporales from Dung of Geese

On a small hardwood branch with the bark beginning to fall away. Note the white lesions in the bark and wood beneath. Perithecia up to 1mm wide by 1.5mm tall.

Asci: 153-168 x 7.5-10µm. The spore bearing part 105-125µm. IKI+, the apical plug about 2.5 tall x 3µm wide when mature; much longer in immature asci.

Spores: 13-14 x 6-7µm, brown, ellipsoid to inequalateral ellipsoid, guttulate, usually with one large guttule at the center, with a very inconspicuous germ slit less than spore length.

Sitting on the surface with squirrel tooth marks on it under Eastern White Pine and Nordmann fir. Smells mushroomy, but also a bit like drying latex paint. Taste mild, pleasant but not a lot of flavor. @tombigelow suggested Melanogaster tuberiformis before I even got it home. Spores brown, 13-18.8 x 8.2-11.4µm

Spores
19-22.6 x 12.9-14.5µm
Av. Length: 20.3µm
Av. Width: 13.6µm
Q: 1.5
N=15

Hairs
865-1279 x 36-47µm … (4 hairs above 1200)
Av. Length: 1069µm
Av. Width: 41µm
Hair Wall Thickness:
Av. Thickness: 5.7µm
4.5-6.9µm
Septa: 13-19