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Sporocarps: sessile or short-stalked, 0.7-1.7 mm total height, brightly coloured. Stalk: 0-0.6 mm (if present <1/2 total height), black, widened at the base. Sporothecae: globose to slightly oblate, 0.6-1.1 mm diam. Peridium: membranous, wrinkled, persistent, iridescent, ranging from purple-violet to turquoise blue, dehiscing irregularly; hyaline by transmitted light. Columella: reaching 1/2 or less height of sporotheca. Capillitium: radiating from the top of the columella, dark brown becoming abruptly colourless at the periphery; threads branched and anastomosed, forking into short free ends at tips, with dark brown nodular and axillary expansions. Spores: globose to subglobose, 10.4-11.8 µm, dark brown, paler and bulging on one side, densely and evenly spinulose. Habitat: on bark of Tsuga mertensiana near melting snow.

Spirally ornamented capillitium with frayed/penicillate ends. (Not sure of any other species that have this character - ID was based primarily on the thread ends - corrections are welcome). Fruiting inside sloughed bark of a Doug fir snag.

In wood chip landscaping. Mild mushroom odor and flavor. Cap extremely viscid!

Spores measure

(6.9) 7.2 - 8 (9) × (3.8) 4.1 - 4.7 (4.8) x (3.6) 3.9 - 4.4 (4.5) µm
Q = (1.6) 1.64 - 1.87 (1.9) ; N = 30
Me = 7.7 × 4.4 µm ; Qe = 1.7

Probably on the remains of Lactarius deceptivus.

Easternmost observation currently posted. Hughes et al 2001 only lists collections from the Western USA.