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A very strange maple with leaves overall A. saccharum shaped but densely pubescent on abaxial surfaces and petioles. Doesn't resemble the black maples (A. nigrum) I'm familiar with from rich bottomlands in the Carolinian zone, which have leaves pubescent on both surfaces with shallow sinuses and blunt lobes.

Growing in shallow soil over limestone bedrock in a degraded treed alvar-like community.

Massassauga Point Conservation Area, Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada.

On decorticated, attached Malus branch.
Spores fragments measure
(5.8) 6 - 8.1 (9.1) × (3.1) 3.5 - 4.19 (4.2) µm
Q = (1.4) 1.5 - 2.3 (2.5) ; N = 22
Me = 7.1 × 3.8 µm ; Qe = 1.9
Asci 250-260x13-14um.

Propolis farinosa was next to it.

Tiny gilled mushrooms grew on incubated deer dung.
Cap is about 3mm and stalk is around 3-4cm.
Spores are dark brown with a germ pore, measure in H2O
(6.9) 7.6 - 9.4 (9.6) × (3.7) 3.8 - 4.3 (4.4) µm
Q = (1.8) 1.9 - 2.3 (2.5) ; N = 34
Me = 8.6 × 4 µm ; Qe = 2.1

Cap 1 cm, cream with darker spots, orange gills, stem striate, cream at apex, greenish-blue at base, spore print: pale, growing solo in the duff beside a poplar log with white pine, cedar, alder, and poplar nearby

Pinkish/cream corticioid on dead low branches of Tsuga canadensis that attached to a living tree.
Basidiospores smooth, amyloid in IKI, measure in KOH
(14.8) 15.4 - 16.8 (17.1) × (10) 11.2 - 13.5 (13.9) µm
Q = (1.1) 1.2 - 1.5 (1.6) ; N = 12
Me = 16 × 12.2 µm ; Qe = 1.3

Orbilia on a decorticated, attached branch of living Tsuga canadensis, next to Dacrymyces stillatus.
Glassy processes at the margin.
Globose SCBs in paraphyses.
Ascospores measure in H2O
(7.9) 8.2 - 9.2 (9.6) × (1.5) 1.6 - 1.9 (2.1) µm
Q = (4.1) 4.4 - 5.4 (5.8) ; N = 19
Me = 8.6 × 1.8 µm ; Qe = 4.9