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 Clavaria zollingeri
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Non endemic
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Caption: Microfiche 1-3. Clavaria zollingeri. (left, Horak no. 1531); Ramariopsis crocea. (Right, Horak no. 1539). | 
Owner: Herb. PDD |
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 6 cm high, up to 6 cm broad, brittle, branched; branching more or less
regularly dichotomous and often divergent in the ultimate rank. Stipe dull violaceous tan to
greyish violaceous brown ("pallid brownish drab", "vinaceous buff" to "pallid vinaceous
drab", "wood brown"), with white subicular mat and occasionally white mycelium over the
stipe base. Branches violaceous brown ("light brownish drab" to "pale brownish drab");
upper branches and apices grey-purple ("purple-drab"), axils narrowly rounded below,
acutely angled above, often white in a line from the spore deposit. Apices rounded, almost
hemispherical. No taste and odour.
Tramal hyphae 3.5-16 µm diam., thin-walled, without clamp connections, tightly packed,
hyaline, parallel. Subhymenium scanty; hyphae 1.5-2 µm diam., gnarled. Basidia 25-40 x
6.2-7.3 µm, narrowly clavate to clavate, without clamp connections; contents homogeneous
to multiguttulate when mature; sterigmata (2)-4, straight, slender, divergent.
Spores 5.6-6.7 x 4.4-5.2 µm (E = 1.14-1.50; E = 1.29; L = 6.12 µm); broadly ellipsoid to
broadly ovate, smooth, thin-walled; contents foamy, refringent under phase contrast; hilar
appendix papillate, less than 1 µm long.
Habitat: On humus and earth under tree ferns.
Notes: This seems to be one of the few Clavaria (sensu stricto) species to have crossed the Equator
into both North America and Europe. I have reported it previously from south-eastern
Australia (Petersen 1978b), and colour notes are from that material.
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