E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on hardwoods, especially Populus species, 2) soft wax-like fruitbodies, the mealy surface with sparse warts or spines up to 0.1cm long, the color light pink to flesh-colored, turning wine-red when injured, the margin whitish, somewhat fringed, distinctly bounded and at times somewhat lifted, 3) spores that are cylindric, slightly curved, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, with droplets, 4) hypobasidia that are longitudinally septate with 2-4 epibasidia, and 5) hyphae with clamp connections.

Eichleriella deglubens has been found in BC, OR, ID, AB, MB, NT, ON, and AK, (Ginns). It also occurs in Europe including Switzerland, (Breitenbach).

Fruiting body:
resupinate (flat on substrate), attached tightly, forming patches up to 0.05cm thick and a few centimeters across, consistency of fruiting body wax-like and soft when fresh, crustose and hard when dry; light pink, flesh-colored, turning wine-red when injured; smooth, farinose [mealy] with isolated, sparsely distributed warts, spines, or thorns up to 0.1cm long; margin whitish, "distinctly bounded and at times somewhat lifted from substrate", in part somewhat fringed, (Breitenbach), spore deposit (white)

Microscopic:
SPORES 12-18 x 6-7 microns, cylindric, slightly allantoid [curved], smooth, inamyloid, colorless, with droplets, some spores forming secondary spores; HYPOBASIDIA 30-40 x 10-12 microns, clavate to cylindric, longitudinally septate, with 2-4 epibasidia up to 5 microns wide; CYSTIDIA not seen; hyphae in hymenium 2-3 microns wide, thin-walled, sparsely septate, with clamp connections; BASAL HYPHAE 2-3 microns wide, thick-walled, sinuous, gnarled, (Breitenbach)