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Spores Inamyloid in melzer’s, roughly 16-18um longitudinally. I will add better measurements when I get a chance. Clamp connections present, found using phloxine, all photos taken at 400x. Will add ITS sequence when possible.

Small, clustered mushrooms found growing on the gnarled, seemingly burned stump ball of what appears to be one long dead and one living Madrona tree. Surrounding environment is on an island, high elevation forest of well spaced, mature conifers and thick, diverse moss blankets. Unique area. Mushroom is deep burgundy red, up to 3cm across the top. Very clean and uniform top. Stem is centrally attached, burgundy, and growing horizontally on nearly all mushrooms. Gills are closely spaced and deep burgundy as well, broadly attached/adnate. Never seen anything like this before. Last 3 photos show scraped spores from a print, put onto a dry microscope slide at 10/0.25 magnification. Spores appear ovate to slightly elliptic. @JRJFungarium

Gametophytes (no sporophytes seen), uncommon within deeply shaded vertical crevices, conifer stumps (Picea sitchensis, Thuja plicata), 1 m above ground, W aspects, few associated bryophytes or lichens. Scale bar 1 mm.