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 Clavaria sp. 5
SynonymsClavaria gibbsiae var. megaspora
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 5 cm high, up to 2.5 mm thick, simple to bifurcate clubs, cespitose in
groups of up to 35 individuals, extremely brittle, white through maturity, slowly aging to
very pale yellow, often subspathulate to expanded above, occasionally branched once in an
open configuration, the branches thick and blunt. Stipe poorly delimited from hymenium.
Taste and odour negligible.
Tramal hyphae clampless. Basidia clamped or furcate. Spores subglobose, smooth.
Notes: One specimen (here) is inadequate for the description of a new taxon. Corner's (1950; p. 239)
description of Clavaria gibbsiae var. megaspora fits well, but C. gibbsiae var. gibbsiae is
spiny-spored, so I do not consider var. megaspora conspecific with it, although I have not
seen the type specimen of var. megaspora.
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