Mucronella pendula (Massee) R.H. Petersen
no common name
Clavariaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Clavariaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Microscopic:
spores 6-9 x 4.5-6.7 microns, broadly elliptic, "usually flattened adaxially", smooth, amyloid, thin-walled, "contents homogenous [sic] to minutely granular", "hilar appendix papillate, eccentric", less than 1 micron long; basidia 4-spored, 28-35 x 6-8 microns, subclavate to almost cylindric, with clamp connections, "contents homogeneous to minutely granular", "walls slowly gelatinizing in 2% KOH and sometimes disappearing in median regions", sterigmata 3-6 microns long, "from cornute and erect to straight and divergent"; subhymenium "extensive, pseudoparenchymatous"; tramal hyphae of club monomitic, inflated variously up to 20 microns in diameter, thin-walled, "more or less parallel, with clamp connections at most septa, not secondarily septate", walls slowly partially gelatinizing in 2% KOH
Spore Deposit:
white
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
See SIMILAR section of Mucronella fusiformis.Habitat
"single, gregarious or occasionally cespitose or two or three fasciculate"; generally on conifer wood, associated with a brown rot; cited collections in October and November
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Hypomyces insignis Berk. & M.A. Curtis
Hypomyces purpureus Peck