Conifer Log. Average spore size is 42 x 15 microns. Smooth to slightly roughened with one large and two small oil drops when mature.

Paraphyses clavate, septate, filled with colored granules that are released when you make a squash mount.

The above photos are of immature specimens. Luckily, there was a remnant of an old fruit body further down the log.

Not a clear DNA ITS match.

Podospora millespora

https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/SynSpecies.asp?RecordID=337415

Black perithecia growing on incubated dung of Sylvilagus floridanus

Perithecial necks totally glabrous

Asci saccate, basally tapered, and appearing to house 1024 spores based on estimation and literature. Seems possible these are only 512 spored asci but those species did not match macroscopically.

Immature spores blue en masse!
Mature spores nearly black in color
Apical caudle scraggly and crooked, basal caudle is the same.

Got to species using this key

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Doveri/publication/259495621_A_bibliography_of_Podospora_and_Schizothecium_a_key_to_the_species_and_a_description_of_Podospora_dasypogon_newly_recorded_from_Italy/links/02e7e52c45f75e01d0000000/A-bibliography-of-Podospora-and-Schizothecium-a-key-to-the-species-and-a-description-of-Podospora-dasypogon-newly-recorded-from-Italy.pdf?origin=publication_detail&_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uIiwicGFnZSI6InB1YmxpY2F0aW9uRG93bmxvYWQiLCJwcmV2aW91c1BhZ2UiOiJwdWJsaWNhdGlvbiJ9fQ

This fuzzy little cort was growing from the ground on the edge of a pine plantation where the pines are dying out and many different kinds of hardwood saplings are competing to fill the niche. Walnut, hickory, maples, oaks, ash, and elm saplings were all within ten feet of this mushroom. Other woody perennials that I could not identify were also present there.

Found this Leccinum atrostipitatum under a bench and because of the awkward angle I didn't even notice its companion until I processed it. The little one is a Mycena species I'm pretty sure. OM 90mm at probably f8

Substrate: on dead leaves of Euphorbiaceae

Habitat: isolated pocket of humid forest surrounded by grassland savannah, 1575m

Ecoregion: Madagascar Subhumid Forests (AT0118) WWF | WKP

Collectors: J. Shay, D. Newman, E. Randrianjohany & R. Letsara

Collection #: JES228

Found on a Spring foray with the Snohomish County Mycological Society. while everyone was picking Verpa, I'm o'er yonder crawling around in the ferns looking for stuff like this lol
I took a lot of photos of this thing & I can't say that I am particularly pleased with any of them. Also, I'm lost on what this observation should even be labeled as anyways..

I am not certain and guessing this species. Please be kind with suggestions. The sample was found in mulch, amorphous, various sizes and growing in a large volume. Growth began when temperatures reached 60 degrees and continued through today where temperatures are mid 30s.

Growing on the underside of a Pinus bungeana cone and the needles underneath under ir. Presumably mycorrhizal with Pinus bungeana. Dimitic with skeletal brownish skeletal hyphae and clamped generative hyphae. Subhymenial hyphae brownish to yellowish and not becoming blue-green in 1M KOH. Subhymenial hyphae hyaline and becoing blue-green in 1M KOH. Basidia 4-sterigmate and blue green in 1M KOH and blue-green pigment leaching out. Young basidia sphaeropedunculate. Spores brown and warted. Spore measurements from Piximetre: (5.5) 5.9 – 7.1 (8.5) × (5.1) 5.3 – 7 (7.6) µm, Q = 1 – 1.1 (1.3); N = 30, Me = 6.5 × 6.2 µm; Qe = 1.1

Individual spores: 6.70 × 6.38 µm, 6.42 × 6.38 µm, 7.06 × 6.98 µm, 6.71 × 6.59 µm, 6.25 × 6.04 µm, 6.34 × 6.12 µm, 6.82 × 6.76 µm, 6.50 × 6.38 µm, 6.19 × 5.92 µm, 6.26 × 5.81 µm, 5.91 × 5.53 µm, 7.67 × 7.62 µm, 6.75 × 6.11 µm, 6.69 × 6.33 µm, 6.19 × 6.01 µm, 7.64 × 7.56 µm, 7.01 × 6.28 µm, 5.85 × 5.31 µm, 5.72 × 5.41 µm, 6.19 × 6.18 µm, 5.64 × 5.45 µm, 6.10 × 6.08 µm, 7.02 × 6.31 µm, 6.05 × 5.88 µm, 5.49 × 5.11 µm, 6.61 × 5.19 µm, 6.32 × 6.15 µm, 8.46 × 7.58 µm, 6.25 × 5.14 µm, 6.53 × 6.26 µm