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 Clavaria sp. 2
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous
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 5 mm, simple clubs, fasciculate in groups of indeterminate numbers,
brittle, fragile. Stipe pinched at base, up to 20 x 4 mm, not well marked from the club, pale
rosy pink ("flesh-pink"), with flesh concolourous. Club appearing waxy, terete, pinkish
orange to coral ("coral-red"), with flesh slightly darker; apex broadly rounded. Taste and
odour negligible.
Tramal hyphae of club 3-8 µm diam., hyaline, clampless, parallel, tightly packed, including
small crystalline deposits. Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous. Hymenium
thickening; basidia 65-80 x 7-9 µm, narrowly clavate, bifurcate or clamped at base; contents
with acicular crystals at maturity; sterigmata not observed. Spores not observed.
Notes: Unfortunately, the only specimen of this handsome taxon was sterile; no fully mature basidia
were seen, nor spores.
Fruit bodies are similar to those of Clavaria rubicundula but that species produces clampless basidia, placing it in subg.
Clavaria, not subg. Holocoryne. Fasciculate fruit bodies are not common in subg. Holocoryne. Thus, this taxon
seems to be more similar to C. gibbsiae and
C. ardosiaca than to C. rubicundula.
A description is given here to bring attention to the taxon, which should be easily identified
in the flora, and which may represent a new species.
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