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 Ramariopsis agglutinata
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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 2 cm high, up to 1 cm broad, very slender and extremely delicate, branched in 1-3 ranks. All parts ivory-coloured ("light buff', "cartridge¬buff"). Stipe pale pinkish yellow to dull yellow ("warm buff") at base, arising from extremely small whitish mycelial patches on substrate. Branches dichotomous, much less than 1 mm thick; axils rounded to lunate. Apices prolonged, lyre-shaped, awl-shaped.
Tramal hyphae of branches uninflated, hyaline, clamped, parallel, agglutinated. Subhymenium pseudoparenchymatous, agglutinated. Hymenium thickening somewhat; basidia 18-25 x 5-6 gm, subcylindrical, clamped, adherent; sterigmata 4, long, straight, divergent, crowded.
Spores 2.7-3.6 x 2.2 gm, ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled, hyaline; contents uniguttulate when mature; hilar appendix small, papillate.
Habitat: On soil with algae and/or moss protonemata.
Notes: I would be happy to place this taxon in Multiclavula , whose fruit bodies occur with algae, and the tissues of which often agglutinate. Nonetheless, the spores are small, too small for Multiclavula , and macro- and micromorphology are more or less typical of Rarnariopsis. If, as Corner (1970) suggested, agglutination in Ramariopsis is an artifact of drying, that feature may also be discounted.
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