Description:
mushroom
Fruiting Body: cap 1-5(8) cm;stalk none; attached eccentrically. Spore Print Color: brown. Spores: basidiospores 7-9(10) x 4.5-5.5 (6) micro, m; ellipsoid in face view, inequalateral in profile, smooth, brown in KOH, double walled..

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: hygrophanous, green brown when wet becoming light purple to white when dry, no stalk present.

Diagnostic microscopic feature: double wall spores, Basidia 2-4 spored; Pleurocystidia absent; 2 types of Cheliocystidia, hymenial, flaskshaped, and tramal. Clamp connections absent

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: present mostly on the bark of deciduous trees, occasionally conifers

Habitat: mostly decidious woods

Fruiting Season: spring, summer, fall