Found in a pool of standing water on a well-rotted piece of bark under cottonwood trees.
Tiny orange cups .5 cm and smaller. Top surface scarlet. Margins lined with dark hairs. Outside of cup fuzzy with shorter hairs, of which some are paler (brown to golden--maybe older). No stem.
What I assumed to be spores were elliptical (see photos). See also paraphyses (which are a little wider at the tip) holding spores. See also hairs, which look brownish or golden in photos.
Flowering. In a dried up wetland near the main dock at deep lake.
Single fruiting beneath Douglas fir and Western red cedar.
Harvested two sections of cap.
MICROSCOPY:
Removed a single gill and mounted in 3% KOH on a glass slide.
Gill edge: abundant with chain of “cystidia like” clavate cells.
Spores: ellipsoid to slightly pip shaped/curved. Smooth, medium sized.
Dehydrated both sections of cap and bagged for herbarium collection/genetic record.
My corresponding Mushroomobserver observation below-
Fruiting in wood chips/woody debris that was laid last summer(Summer 2023).
Note: vertically arranged, ladder like/evenly distributed cap pits, darkened ridges. Occurrence in disturbed/impacted habitat.
Location/map obscured.
This is a very wood-like looking fungus with a bark textured top. It extends its base outwards like a shelf fungus and curves downward in the shape of a clamshell. These were found on a cut down tree, most likely feeding off of it as it decays.