ryan_durand's Identifications

Sporocarps: crowded on decaying Populus trichocarpa wood; 1.5-2.5 mm tall. Stalk: 0.8-1.5 mm (45-57 % TH), yellow-beige, filled with cells up to 20 um diam. Sporothecae: 0.8-1.1 x 0.8 mm diam. Calcyculus: small, furrowed, minutely warted/punctate. Capillitium: reticulate, loose, spinose, smoother below, threads 1.8-4.0 um. Spores: (5.7)6.0-7.3(8.2) um.

Growing in deep rotting leaf litter under a Crepe Myrtle tree in a suburban garden. Started out as small vertical 'rods' but after a day, the almost translucent sporotheca began to develop and a couple of these have turned black. Now, after 3 days many of the sporotheca have matured and become iridescent blue.