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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.

On rotten, wet hardwood. Mossy hardwoods. Side of path. Spore print is white. Consistency is gelatinous and pruinose(sugary aspect). Crust is growing on anything in its way of expansion: moss, debris and decorticated wood. It thins out towards margin.

Among moss, grass and weeds. Buried deeply. Mossy hardwoods. Side of path. scaly cap 2.9 cm; stipe 8.5 cm x 3.2 mm. Earthy smell. Cheilocystidia abundant, in bunches; occasionally with simple septa, constricted, pseudocapitate and wide; some have grainy contents/aspect; some are golden. Basidia also look golden. The aspect of the gills is given by the spaced bunches of cheilocystidia. The cheilocystidia also give the contrasting effect of the edge being lighter than the side of the gills which are covered with the light brown spores. Found before in the same area: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/201172751

Found by chance at the base of a fungus that was growing among moss. Hardwoods. There were three units near each other. On photo 6, I wrote 'alga thread' because that's what I thought it was initially.

Ground among hardwood leaves; edge of path. Mossy woods. KOH on cap turned brown instantly and dissolved the tissues. Some scales on cap turned up after it was dry. All cells have a granulose appearance and have clamps at their base. Spore print was brown cinnamon. Cap 1.9 cm; stipe 5.2 cm. Inosperma or Pseudosperma.

Resupinate polypore of a very delicate and loose aspect. On the underneath surface of an old Sambucus nigra branch. Inside an abandoned convent. 2-4 pores per mm, of irregular aspect. Margin delicate and arachnoid. In some areas, the pores seem to be floating on hyphae! Spores ~22.-3.7 x 3.7-4.9 um. Basidia 4-spored. Simple septa seen only on hyphae.

Found by chance while scoping a crust fungus which was growing on a rotten, wet hardwood roof beam; in an abandoned convent. Three conidia were found: 44.4, 48.6 and 49 um long. The first one was found after dipping wood fragment in water and touching its surface with the slide cover. Anamorph of Orbilia sp.

Parasitizing Geoglossum umbratile. Conidiophore is white-grayish. At the micro, all structures are light brown. Conidia keep adding inflated segments. Some of them present some tuberculose aspect which disappear later. Several conidia can develop from the same conidiophore. Cirrenalia?

Several resupinate forms growing on a hardwood stick. Margin is dark, and inrolled when young. Spore print is white. It has a fruity smell. It is considered a complex group within the S. nivea/semipileata. 7-8 round, flat pores per mm. 2.3mm thick. Margin is abrupt and free of spores. Pistachio, Laurel and Prunus are present in these woods. Wood presents a white rot.

On possibly oak broken roof beam. The wood felt like a rock and it was hard to get a sample. 4.5-6 pores per mm. Lots of 'round' crystals on dissepiment edge. Setae are present inside pore wall. Resupinate polypore was several decimeters in length; 0.75mm thick. Inside a room in an abandoned convent.

On a wet piece of wood nailed to the wall, inside an abandoned convent. (Third floor!) Cap 2.5 cm; stipe 5.8 cm with a bulbous base of 6.5 mm and mycelium. Single. it presents the trabecular cystidia that separates the gills!

Young specimen was brought home and it expanded during the night. Notice its bulbous base. Cap 2.5 cm; stipe 4 cm x 4.5mm at its base. It has basal threads. Cap has threads remnants. On the floor of an abandoned convent which is full of debris from the broken wall. Interesting to notice that when I brought the fungus home, it was very pale (dry cream-bone color) and later, after it was put on a wet piece of towel it turned grayish (3rd photo). In this second observation, the spores (from spore print) were smaller than the mature specimen collected and scope in the first observation (6.1-8.6 x 7.4-12.3 um first one) vs (second one 6.1-7.9 x 7.4-9.8 um). First observation of mature specimen: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/202261030 In the latter, new spore measurement seen only from ventral view has been added (two photos). Photos have been added using Melzers. An interesting reaction happened there: the nucleus was revealed but it faded after few minutes! Three last photos are from 3/23.

Two units close by; on rich soil; among moss; under hardwoods. Area subject to flood. Shady wet woods. Cup had striations towards margin. It faded later (hygrophanous). Cap 8mm; stipe 3.8 cm. Gills have a decurrent tooth. Cystidia present on edge and side of gill and on stipe.

On ground; under hardwoods. Area subject to flood. Shady wet woods. Two units. Smaller specimen was examined. Greasy cap 4 cm; stipe 4cm. Cap has a sweet fungal smell. 'Metuloids' are present on edge and side of gill and on upper stipe. Cap has only brown cells. All structures with clamps. Most basidia 4-spored but few were 2-spored.

Crust with teeth. It looks like hills with numerous teeth. Micro revealed those teeth to be hyphal pegs which are made of several hyphae sticking together to form a false tooth! These hyphal ends are heavily incrusted. Clamps are absent in all cells. Unable to have a photo of basidia although one was seen 6.1 x 24 um 4-spored. On hardwood stick found inside an abandoned convent. The wood has a white rot.

Cap 4mm; stipe 6.7 cm. Reviving. Interesting to see what it did on the leaf! It grew several threads for several mm to hold onto it (photo #3). I broke its attachment. Under hardwoods. Basidia 4-spored.

Side of rural road. Hardwood debris, good soil, sand and garbage abound there. This is also a calcareous region. Two units next to each other. No particular smell detected. Examined cap at right: cap 3.8 cm; stipe 3 cm x 6mm. When stipe was cut an old ointment smell arouse from it. Gills are dirty cream and decurrent. Cystidia are present everywhere. I. cf. asterospora . Subgenus Clypeus. Inocybe calida has been suggested. There is actually a confusing between the two.