Summary:
Features include 1) resupinate growth on conifer wood, 2) an ochraceous, waxy fruitbody, firmly attached at first but separable when dry, the margin thinning out to a varnish-like film, 3) spores that are cylindric, smooth, and inamyloid, 4) tube-like, embedded gloeocystidia arising at different levels in the subiculum, and 5) hyphae with clamp connections.
The holotype is from BC.
Fruiting body:
0.06-0.09cm thick, widely effused [spread out], ceraceous [waxy], becoming indurated and rimose [hard and cracked], adnate [firmly attached] at first but separable when dry; ochraceous; margin thinning out to a varnish-like film, (Jackson), ceraceous to membranaceous (Julich)
Microscopic:
SPORES 7-8 x 3.5-4.5 microns, oblong cylindric, "flattened and slightly concave on one side", smooth, inamyloid, thin-walled; BASIDIA 4-spored, 40-50 x 5.5-6.5 microns, narrowly clavate, sterigmata subulate [awl-shaped], slender, and 5-5.5 microns long; GLOEOCYSTIDIA "arising at different levels in the subiculum and extending to surface of hymenium, not projecting", 65-130 x 4.5-6 microns, long cylindric or narrowly fusiform, subflexuous [somewhat wavy], obtuse at apex; SUBICULUM "made up of upright nodulose hyphae" 2-3 microns wide, often collapsed, with clamp connections, (Jackson)
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