Summary:
Features include 1) gelatinous, tuberculate, confluent, whitish to grayish growth on dead coniferous wood and bark, 2) slender, often strongly curved spores, and 3) 2-celled basidia, with the tendency of these to become detached before developing epibasidia (the third feature distinguishing it from others in genus according to Martin, G.W.(1)).
It has been found in BC, ON, and PQ, (Ginns).
Fruiting body:
0.1-0.3cm in diameter, becoming larger by confluence, gelatinous, pustulate, drying to an inconspicuous horny film; white to dingy or grayish when moist, (Martin, G.W.(1)), "pure white varying to dingy white or grayish when soaked, drying to an inconspicuous horny film", (Martin, G.W.(2)), 0.1-0.3cm wide and high, tuberculate, confluent, gelatinous; whitish or grayish, (Raitviir)
Microscopic:
SPORES (16)20-22 x (4)5-6 microns, cylindric-allantoid, often strongly curved; "in section composed of radiating branched hyphae", some of the branches becoming slender branched paraphyses 2-2.5 microns wide, others swollen at the tips, the swellings either proliferating or developing into cylindrical-clavate probasidia mostly 30-35 x 6-7 microns, "these becoming transversely 1-septate, each cell sending out a cylindrical epibasidium, varying in length but usually rather long and 2-3 microns in diameter except just below the sterigma where it is often somewhat enlarged", (Martin(1)), SPORES (16)20-22(24) x (4)5-6.5 microns, cylindric or allantoid, colorless; BASIDIA 2-cellular, rarely 3-cellular or 4-cellular, 19-40 x 5-8 microns, almost cylindric; HYPHIDIA 2-2.5 microns wide, thin, branched; HYPHAE 1.5-2.5 microns wide, "radiating, branched, with septa", without clamp connections, (Raitviir)
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