Chromelosporium carneum

[Steve]

This was quite abundant on leaf litter (mostly oak) in a Sheffield wood. It is a lovely pink colour, with rough surfaced spherical spores mostly 5 um diameter, and the conidiophore (synnemata) hyphae about 12 um wide. I'm basing my ID on leaf litter hyphomycetes in Ellis & Ellis "Microfungi on Land Plants".

[Chris Yeates]

Nice find - I'm sure your ID is correct. The only previous Yorkshire records of which I am aware are from Bretton Park lakes, on two separate dates in November 1994.
Some Chromelosporium spp. appear to be anamorphs of Peziza species. It's nicely dealt with here: http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r146078.htm
cheers
Chris

[Steve]

Thanks again Chris,
Cheers,
Steve