ryan_durand's Identifications

Habitat: lignicolous; very wet mature conifer forest. Associated with Lamproderma columbinum and liverworts.
Sporocarps: gregarious, 1.0 – 2.0 mm
Sporothecae: spherical, nodding, 0.2 – 0.3 mm dia., ochraceous.
Stalk: long and slender, 0.8 – 1.5 mm; orange-brown, paler toward base, becoming dark reddish brown upon drying.
Hypothallus: inconspicuous or forming a thick, spongy, dull brown membrane.
Peridium: a well-developed net with thickened nodes filled with dictydine granuals purple-brown (in KOH). Nodes up to ~10-30 µm across. Cup absent.
Spores: pale yellow-brown, minutely spinulose, (7.4)7.5 - 8.8(9.1) µm

Tubifera ferruginosa s.l. (keys to subsp. ferruginosa in Leontyev et al. 2015). Photo sequence over 12 days of development. Missed the early stages.
Habitat: on cut face of Thuja plicata log in old growth mixed riparian forest
Pseudoaethalium: ~3 cm x 5 cm, shiny reddish brown, becoming dull light brown; compact clusters of cylindrical sporothecae with free hemispherical tips; peridium thin, translucent, shining.
Spores: (6)6.5-7.6(8) µm, reticulate

This is the same example as previously recorded several times, now showing more mature light brown fruiting bodies. Some still have the blue tint (4th photo) and the most mature look as in the 5th photo.

To see all the stages recorded for this example, click on 'observations' then enter 'Badhamia utricularis' in the search box near the top of the page that comes up and press 'enter'.

Habitat: on Populus trichocarpa log
Sporotheca: sporangiate, yellow-brown, some black, ~1.5 mm x 0.7mm diam.
Stalk: grey-brown; ~0.7- 1.0 mm
Elaters: 4-5 spirals, short, free, long tapered acuminate tips; 4-5 µm
Spores: (10) 10.4 (11.5) µm; yellow, minutely warted.
Notes: specimen was collected immature and never fully matured.