E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Typhula thaxteri (Burt) Berthier
no common name
Typhulaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

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Species Information

Summary:

Not available
Fruiting body:
0.006-0.008cm tall (60-80 microns), colorless; head nearly spherical, 0.004-0.0045cm in diameter (40-45 microns), "totally fertile or with a few basal sterile elements", (Redhead), 100-110 microns high, subcapitate, erect, white then tawny; head 50-110 microns wide, 40-50 microns high, almost hemispheric, the hymenium limited to convex surface, (Corner)
Stem:
0.003-0.0035cm x 0.0013-0.0015cm (30-35 x 13-15 microns), round in cross-section, solid, bald, (Redhead), 60 x 20-50(80) microns, "short and dilating obconically into the head"; bald; no sclerotium, (Corner)
Microscopic:
spores 6-8.6 x 4.3-5 microns, short-elliptic, inequilateral, smooth, inamyloid, colorless, thin-walled, with a prominent obtuse apiculus; basidia 4-spored, 20-25 x 6.5-7.5 microns, clavate, simple-septate; stem hyphae 3.5-5.5 microns wide, thin-walled, smooth, simple septate, frequently anastomosing, agglutinated, (Redhead), spores 5-9 x 3.5-4.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, white; basidia 4-spored, 13-17 x 4-4.5 microns, subclavate; cystidia none; hyphae 1.5-2 microns wide, thin-walled, without clamp connections, longitudinal in stem, divergent in head, (Corner)

Habitat / Range

gregarious on "woody debris, insect frass, and old perithecia on well decayed hardwood branch in mixed coastal forest", both other world collections on wood, (Redhead), gregarious on rotten wood (Corner for CT)

Synonyms and Alternate Names

Craterellus humphreyi Burt

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Species References

Redhead(57), Corner(2) (as Pistillina thaxteri)

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