At the end of the year, while my family were enjoying indoor pool in the hotel, I went to a small copse of olive trees in an urban areas and I found a small fungal treasure where i spent several hours. Amongst the bounty I found this beautiful microfungus growing from a plank of wood in advance state of decomposition. They formed small golden colonies (8-12mm) which often merged into each other. Looking with a magnifying glass, I could see fine threads of brown filaments (condiophores)
Under the microscope, the picture was very interesting too. The spores were globular, bright-golden yellow, about 12-13 um across, with what looks to be a lobed sporoplasm and a thick wall. These originated from an inflated, udder-like structure (= cow milking part!! ) with 4-10 well defined teats to which the conidiospores were attached. In turn these inflated structures were present on the terminal parts of thick-walled, septate, brownish hyphae arising from a mat of white mycelium on the substrate. The substrate was an old wooden plank (fallen from a ceiling) and dumped at the side of a damp olive plantation. Cant say the origin of the wood.