Summary:
Features include 1) growth on decaying wood of Populus, 2) a waxy to firm gelatinous fruitbody that is colorless to pale grayish or light amber, the surface granulose to pruinose, and the margin tightly attached but not well marked, 3) scattered, subhymenial, white mineral deposits present in some parts, 4) spores that are elliptic to short cylindric curved, 5) basidia that are longitudinally septate, developing on fertile hyphae that proliferate through the subbasidial clamp connection, and 6) sparse dikaryophyses that rarely project beyond the hypobasidial layer.
The holotype is from BC.
Fruiting body:
effused (spread out on substrate), waxy to firm gelatinous, in section 0.0045-0.0155cm thick; scattered, subhymenial, white mineral deposits present in some parts; fruiting body drying to a thin varnish-like layer; colorless, grayish colorless to light amber (when soaked), drying to colorless, light gray, to light to dark amber; "granulose with pruinose patches, some parts glistening; surface granulose to pruinose, smooth"; margins adnate [tightly attached], indeterminate [not well marked], (Wells)
Microscopic:
SPORES 10-12.5 x (4.5)5.5-6.5 microns, elliptic and laterally depressed to short cylindric curved, guttulate, germination by repetition not observed; PROBASIDIA (13.5)15-22(24) x (9)10-12(13.5) microns distal from clamp connection, enucleate part when present up to 12.5 microns and 3-4 microns wide, "initially narrow obovate to narrow clavate or pyriform, with basal clamp connection, with (2-)4 segments, often with an enucleate stalk, attached at the morphological base or obliquely to almost laterally attached", epibasidia up to 22 microns long, 2-3.5 microns wide, "tubular, somewhat flexuous, usually slightly swollen beneath the sterigma"; fertile hyphae (1.5)2.5-4(7) microns wide, "flexuous, proliferating through or near the subbasidial clamp"; DIKARYOPHYSES "relatively sparse, rarely projecting beyond the hypobasidial layer", 1-2.5 microns wide in apical part, 1.5-5 microns wide in basal part, "simple, nodulose to short-branched distally"; SUBHYMENIAL HYPHAE 2-3 microns wide, mainly distinct, with clamp connections; in section "consisting of a compact to loose ascending layer of interwoven hyphae terminating in the hymenium of fertile hyphae and scattered dikaryophyses, basidia in a zone 25-35 microns wide", "portions of the substrate and other debris often incorporated within the ascending layer"
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