Public Note:
[GC] Pilei annual, scattered, rarely crowded, membranous, fragile, clavate becoming urniform, 0.25-0.75 mm diameter, 0.5-1.25 mm long, attached by narrow bases; exterior bay or tan, densely tomentose, abhymenial hairs tortuous, tapering to long-acuminate apices, to 3-5 µ diameter, aseptate, unbranched, walls hyaline, 0.5 µ thick, staining, some encrusted with deciduous crystals; margin inturned, fibrillose, lacerate; hymenia surface even, concave, tan. Context pallid tan, to 80 µ thick, of closely compacted radiately arranged parallel hyphae; generative hyphae to 4 µ diameter, walls 0.2 µ thick, tinted yellow, without clamp connections. Hymenial layer to 45 µ deep, a close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia clavate, 22-28 x 7-9 µ, bearing 2-4 spores; sterigmata erect, slender, to 5 µ long. Paraphyses subclavate, 16-24 x 6-7 µ. Spores pip-shaped, obliquely apiculate, 7-8 x 3.5-4 µ, walls smooth, hyaline, 0.1 µ thick, often adhering in fours.
Notes: Characterised by the tortuous abhymenial hairs of the pileus surface, narrow pip-shaped spores, tan colour of the fragile, irregularly shaped pilei, pallid yellow walls of context hyphae, and absence of clamp connections. Abhymenial hairs are densely crowded and stain deeply with aniline blue; at first they are encrusted with fine crystals, which gradually disappear so that in mature plants most hairs are naked.
Habitat: HABITAT: Scattered on bark of dead twigs. [Agerer] The type is likely a Maireina and differs from existing species by basal white felt and dextrinoid reaction with hairs basally only slightly brownish [JAC]whole frb brown, unlike F. tongariro with just disk brown.Hairs granulose, smoother in apical tapering region, Encrustation granular. Some slight pigmentation towards base. A typical Flagelloscypha. spores (including apiculus) length=8.3–11.3µm (µ=9.6, σ=0.70), width=4.2–5.3µm (µ=4.8, σ=0.41), Q=1.6–2.4µm (µ=2.02, σ=0.23), n=29. This is a big discrepancy on spores which brings L. pseudopanax and L. coprosmae together. The report of this from Israel is clearly something else.
J.A. Cooper, 8/7/2015