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 Clavaria alboglobospora
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Fig. 17 Clavaria albo-globospora, spores, TENN no. 42295. Scale bar = 5µm. | 
Caption: (3) Clavaria albo-globospora. Taylor no. 2157. | 
Caption: Microfiche 1-13. Clavaria albo-globospora. TENN no. 42295. |
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 10 cm high, up to 4 mm thick, simple clubs, gregarious to densely
cespitose in groups of up to 30 individuals, arising from individual or common white
mycelial patches, very brittle. Club equal to tapering slightly upward, pale ivory to very pale
yellow ("light buff", "cartridge-buff", "ivory-yellow"), opaque, appearing waxy. Stipe equal
or tapering downward slightly, concolourous with club, poorly delimited when fresh,
although somewhat silky in appearance. Taste and odour negligible. Macrochemical
reaction: FCL = negative.
Tramal hyphae significantly inflated, hyaline, thin-walled, clampless, of long cells;
secondary septa occasional. Subhymenium well developed, pseudoparenchymatous.
Hymenium thickening, lightly agglutinated; basidia 80-100 x 7-9 µm, clavate, clamped;
contents homogeneous when young, granular to multiguttulate when mature; sterigmata 4,
stout, straight.
Spores 8.3-9.4x6.8-8.6 µm (E = 1.05-1.20; Em = 1.10; Lm = 8.64 µm), subglobose, thin-walled, smooth; contents
uniguttulate when mature; hilar appendix prominent, papillate.
Habitat: On soil under kauri (Agathis australis).
Notes: Macroscopically, this appears very much like Clavaria vermicularis of the North Temperate
Zone. Clumps were found growing with C. ardosiaca under a large kauri tree.
I have not been able to examine the type specimen of Clavaria gibbsiae var. tenuis (f. tennis)
Corner, but Corner's description fits this taxon closely. Because the type specimen of C.
gibbsiae is spiny-spored, I cannot consider var. tenuis to be conspecific with it (although
careful examination of the type of var. tenuis may also reveal spiny spores). An elevation of
the varietal epithet would result in a homonym of C. tenuis Schweinitz, and I am reluctant to
use the type specimen of var. tenuis to represent the collections cited in "Specimens
Examined", so I have proposed a new species with Corner's variety as a synonym.
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