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Found by chance growing through a thin crust fungus. Preserve and rice field canal edge. Only hardwoods present. "Conidiophores dark, stout, upright, dendritically (arborescent) branched, ultimate branches producing solitary conidia; conidia dark, 4- or more-celled, cylindrical, straight or slightly curved; saprophytic." H. L. Barnett.

Resupinate polypore with a lighter delicate margin which extends in a wide manner and has an arachnoid/loose aspect; bottom of pores has the same look. It has a kind of disagreeable smell; 4-5 pores per mm. KOH just made it gelatinous; but even water does that too. Its color is some kind of dirty pale green; its margin has a dirty white tone. When dry is very brittle. On hardwood; at the edge of a preserve and a rice field canal. In some tiny spots, the polypore is white.

Several units bursting through the bark. The amount of conidia produced on each fruitbody is humongous. The fungus itself is hidden at the bottom; it is gelatinous and immerse in the wood. What the photo shows are the masses of conidia that break apart when wet. They kind of 'melt' on the wood. Conidia are produced trough some type of collar. On Ficus carica; at the edge of a preserve, in a seepage area.

Clonostachys rosea (Link: Fr.) Schroers et al. F 85

was isolated from soil at Site B in June. This is known to be mycoparasite as Gliocladium roseum, a widely distributed species. This species was transferred to Clonostachys in 2000. It is characterized by two kinds of conidiophores. The Verticillium-type primary conidiophores are formed first, then more complicated Penicilium-type secondary conidiophores are formed. The shape of conidia from both types are different from each other. The conidia are also characteristically asymmetrical. https://www.tamagawa.ac.jp/sisetu/gakujutu/alsrc/tama_kin/slide08e.htm

On a thin hardwood branch found on the ground (1 cm thick). Without basal hyphae. Lamprocystidia have thick walls and lower part is naked. Some of them were immersed and some were seen starting at the place with the crust starts growing on the substrate. No spores were seen. Shady woods.

Crust of delicate, arachnoid aspect (loose) when young, pure white; developing teeth and acquiring a cream color later on. Halocystidia and other type of cystidia seen; clamps profuse on subhymenium and hyphal ends which have incrustations. Unable to see any basidia but plenty of spores were seen. Margin has a loose aspect. On hardwood. Shady woods.

On a small piece of hardwood. Perithecia are ~5mm in diameter and they are soft and covered with dark setae. When younger they are attached to substratum by a net of dark septate hyphae; later, the 'ball' detaches easily and may roll. Preserve.

Thin white crust with some yellow spots; delicate and arachnoid aspect; structures have clamps; halocystidia present. On thin rotten, wet hardwood stick of 5.5mm. Shady woods. The crust has an extraordinary sweet fungal smell. Thinning towards margin. The crust was seen also growing on long fibers!

White thin crust of delicate aspect; subhymenium has a loose aspect. It thins out towards margin. Hymenium is covered with numerous exerted ornamented cystidia. On oak or fig rotten wood, near a rice field bank. Preserve.

Stick was retrieved from a rice canal and incubated. Cotton Blue cells from second day; Kongorot cells from 3rd day. Bulbil-like cells developed on it. They start white and mature to a pink-peach tone. They don't seem to have an attachment. Conidia are starting to develop giving the fungus some kind of cauliflower appearance.

On old Quercus gall. The crust is very thin and is mainly composed of gloeocystia with a bulbous base that narrows to a tip that exerts a little bit beyond the basidial layer. Few of these exerted tips were seen having crystals.

On Ficus carica rotten branch. The crust has a fibrose margin. No rhizomorphs were seen. Although my spores are a bit narrower, the light color of the short and inflated subhymenial hyphae, and the morphological appearance of the crust makes it look like it.

On rotten hardwood (oak or fig); side of cliff in a preserve. Crust is gelatinous. Interesting to notice that this crust was perhaps more mature than another observation I just made. It has more spores germinating and also even younger basidia were developing one single thin sterigmata. Spores are bigger than in the former observation.https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/227554376

Thin crust of arachnoid aspect; the warty appearance is false. It is given by growing on scat and debris. Crust thins out towards margin. Two types of cystidia: one capped with crystals and other inflated and narrowing towards tip. All structures with clamps. On rotten hardwood (oak or fig) at the side of a rice canal; area subject to flood.

On rotten hardwood (oak or fig) next to a rice canal. Area is subject to flood. Crust is very thin, looking almost like white dust. Some fine cordons were seen. Clamps are present. Basidia were not observed. The white crust is another species.

On unknown decorticated hardwood (oak or fig); side of rice canal. Area is subject to flood. Teeth are of waxy aspect and compact, with hyphal ends at the tip of teeth strongly incrusted up to 5.4 um wide (very long). Cystidia (leptocystidia) with simple septa; clamps are present in subhymenial hyphae which have thin to thick walls up to 2.9 um wide.

Bell-like fungus. Cap is ornamented with brownish cystidia. Cheilocystidia are present on edge of gill. On Ficus carica. Edge of preserve and rice field canal. Biggest cap ~3mm, attached by a central point. Stipe is absent. Gills are spaced.

On a stick. Small size. Newly opened stretch of land along a rice canal. Clamps are present. Cystidia are present on edge of gills, side of gills, cap and stipe. Marasmiellus?
Pierre-Arthur Moreau:
"I was about to ask if the stipe was pruinose, but I read that there are cystidia everywhere, then I go to Porotheleaceae/Cyphellaceae. My first idea would be Marasmiellomycena (ex-Marasmiellus) omphaliiformis or a close unknown relative but hairs on pileipellis are not visible on your pictures. Another possibility is Marasmiellus virgatocutis o another Physalacriaceae nearby with aberrant cystidia, which could also be teratological monosporic basidia."

There were more than 50 units within few centimeters area. examined specimen at left of photo. Cap with umbo: 1.9 cm; hollow and fibrose stipe 5 cm x 4.5mm at its base. It feels sturdy. Gills are spaced, with two types of attachment: one full style, mixed with a decurrent tooth. The hyphae from the cap were slightly brown-gray.

Cap 8mm; stipe 18mm. It has a faint smell of cabbage and fish. It revived after being wet. Cap is a bit sunken at center. Stipe is densely covered with odd shaped cystidia. Clamps are present. Three units on a small hardwood branch. Shady woods.

Very thin crust fungus; originally it showed some low warts; KOH and even water make it turn light ocher pink. When cut, it showed yellow staining. Margin thins out and shows few delicate hyphae. Cystidia are absent. Clamps are present.

Cap 1.1 cm; stipe 1.8 cm. Cap and stipe are covered with scales of fluffy aspect. Cheilocystidia present (edge of gill) 31.6-38.4 x 6.9-9.8 um. Some cheilocystidia were seen with golden contents (last photo). Basidia not observed. On rotten hardwood. Shady woods.

Crust is growing on an old Ganoderma adspersum cap. The host feels like just a piece of wood. The crust has teeth/aculei of loose appearance. The subiculum (the part touching substrate) is very thin and continues towards the margin forming a gauzy area of delicate hyphal threads. Edge of preserve and rice canal.

Crust of waxy consistency with lots of white nuclei under the hymenium. They are made of crystals. There are cystidia of lanceolate shape; their tips collapsing easily; sometimes with a drop-like end. On hardwood. Mossy woods.

On old gall from Laurobasidium lauri. The cups form a white crown ~.25 mm and the hymenium is deep down in the flesh of the gall. Spores super long and multiply segmented. Paraphyses are a bit longer than asci and have simple to odd shaped tips. https://www.dorsetnature.co.uk/pages-fungi/f-204.html

Fly was on a window panel. The fungus consists of white hyphae running in all directions with terminal capitate heads. Before sample was placed in the micro, there are tiny dark concentrations of spores, masses scattered around. Micro shows that these heads keep growing. There are two types of spores present which I have no idea about why.

On Ficus pumila fruit (climbing vine) inside an abandoned convent. The conidiophore is up to 1.5 mm tall. Sporangia is hyaline, turning yellow and finally maturing to a black spore mass that falls apart as it is touched.

Crust has a smooth aspect and a loose subhymenium, with hyphae with thick walls. Clamps are absent. Cystidia have thick walls and incrustations only at tip. The subiculum keeps growing 'naked' beyond the smooth hymenium giving the crust a gauzy 'margin' which disappears into few hyphal threads on the substratum. On thin hardwood branch. Shady woods.

Solitary. Under hardwoods. Shady woods. Cap 1.8 cm; stupe 2.3 cm x 5mm at its base. Cheilocystidia are present on edge of gill but absent on side of gill. Caulocystidia present on stipe. All cells with clamps at their base.

On Laurus nobilis leaf. There are some gelatinous shapes on the lower center & right area of leaf. The fungus presents a simple basal structure from where conidia are born. The conidia present a peculiar aspect at their base. Inside a roofless room in an abandoned convent. Pseudocercospora has been suggested.

Cap deliquesced before I could measure it. It has a bulb at base. On rotten hardwood. Single. Shady woods. After deliquescing, the only structures left intact were the stipe and the scales on its cap. The scales look like cones with a golden tip. They are made of golden brown hyphae towards the tip and lighter inflated hyphal cells towards the base; all of them growing on chains; with clamps. Stipe 4.6 cm; 4mm at its base. Cystidia are present on stipe; with a bulbous base and contents.

On Laurus nobilis. Leaves are being kept in moist towels. Micro is coming soon. Each pycnidium is round, separate and looks like a crater. Its ostiole breaks in three rays. The biggest was 0.6mm in diameter. There are troops of them on both sides of leaf.

On Laurus nobilis leaf. Found by chance while keeping a leaf wet to encourage some ascomycetes to open. They appeared the second day. Leaf was found inside a roofless room in an abandoned convent. The caps are ~1mm wide and have no gills. All the structures are covered with capitate cystidia and broom-like cells. Spores are huge for the size of the funguses themselves and have a thick apiculus. The funguses are pure white, speckled with the capitate cystidia acquiring a 'hairy' aspect. There were 17 units. Biggest cap was 2mm.