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 Henningsomyces candidus
SynonymsLachnella candida
Solenia candida
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: Henningsomyces candidus, BCP 1587
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Caption: Henningsomyces candidus, BCP 1587
Owner: B.C. Paulus | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Owner: J.A. Cooper | 
Caption: fruitbodies
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Article: Cunningham, G.H. (1963). The Thelephoraceae of Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin 145: 359 p. Wellington:.
Description: Subiculum annual, arachnoid, white, effused
forming irregular areas to 5 x 2.5 cm. Pilei scattered or crowded in small
groups, not confluent, cylindrical, 0.25-1.25 mm tall, 0.1-0.3 mm diameter,
attached by narrow bases, ceraceous, fragile, white drying honey yellow; pileus
surface delicately pruinose, clothed with delicate septate abhymenial hairs
bearing apically 3-11 filiform branches 0.5-1 µm diameter; margin even, fringed
with a compact palisade of branched hairs, erect or slightly inturned. Context
white, to 30 µm thick, of densely compacted parallel hyphae; generative hyphae
2-2.5 µm diameter, walls 0.2 µm thick, hyaline. Hymenial layer to 25 µm deep, a
close palisade of basidia and paraphyses. Basidia clavate, 14-18 x 4-5.5 µm,
bearing 4 spores; sterigmata erect, slender, to 4 µm long. Paraphyses clavate,
8-14 x 3.5-4 µm. Spores globose or subglobose, apiculate, 4.5-5 µm diameter,
walls smooth, hyaline, 0.2 µm thick.
Habitat: HABITAT: Solitary or crowded on
bark or decorticated wood of dead branches.
Distribution: DISTRIBUTION: Europe, Great Britain, North
America, New Zealand.
Notes: Separation from L. fasciculata may be made by the
type of abhymenial hairs covering surfaces of pilei. In L. candida they
are freely septate with delicate walls and apices bearing several (2-11)
delicate branches.
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