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 Clavaria luteostirpata
BiostatusOccurrence uncertain
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Caption: Microfiche 1-18. Clavaria luteostirpata. TENN no. 43587. |
Article: Petersen, R.H. (1988). The clavarioid fungi of New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 236: 170 pp. Wellington:.
Description: Fruit bodies up to 60 x 2.5 mm, simple clubs, gregarious to connate in pairs, arising from
small white mycelial patches. Club greenish yellow ("Naples-yellow", "mustard-yellow",
"old-gold") to apricot-yellow ("buff-yellow", "maize-yellow"). Stipe brighter ("primuline-yellow", "apricot-yellow"),
silky, arising from a white mycelial pad.
Tramal hyphae of club 3-8 µm diam., hyaline, clampless, parallel, tightly packed.
Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous. Hymenium thickening; basidia 65-75 x 8-9 µm, clavate, bifurcate or clamped at base; contents
homogeneous to opalescent at maturity;sterigmata 4, stout, divergent.
Spores 6.4-9 x 6.4-8.2 µm, broadly ovate to broadly ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline; contents
multiguttulate to opalescent when mature; hilar appendix broad, papillate.
Notes: This species has been described elsewhere (Petersen 1978b) from south-eastern Australia
and New Zealand material differs solely in very slight colour variation. TENN no. 43576
represents an apricot or buffy yellow variant, originally thought to be a separate species, but
micro morphologically it matches the typical colour form too closely to be segregated.
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