I can’t at the moment get a confirmation on this identification, but it looks about right so I’ll leave this as the ID until someone tells me different. The size is right, 0.4 to 2mm in the book and they are certainly within this range, most being about 0.7 to 1 mm across. The colour is right, starting white and maturing to black-ish as the transparent-ish inner membrane allows the black spore colour to show through, while the outer membrane becomes increasingly calcareous (white) and making the growth eventually pale grey. They sit on a thin red covering to the wood, the wood in the books is the bark of fallen trees, here it is wood chips. They certainly swarm as described in the books, turning patches white than grey then pale grey. The spores are the right size if right at the top end of the range of sizes, and appropriately smooth. What I’m not sure about is the internal structure. ‘The capillitium often aggregates to form a pseudocolumella’ and I have a white mass in the center of the sporocarps (round structures) which could be the pseudocolumella, but I lose confidence here. So for now at least ………
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