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

Summary:

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Fruiting body:
up to 2cm high, variable in shape, simple, subulate [awl-shaped], cylindric, or cylindric-attenuate, or forked and simply branched, occasionally palmate or short-stemmed with a folded or wrinkled cap, consistency firm-gelatinous, usually not distinctly rooted, but occasionally with a slightly bulbous base; yellow to orange-yellow when fresh, drying red-brown, (McNabb), 0.2-0.7(1)cm x 0.1-0.2cm, cylindric to awl-shaped spines with blunt to pointed, simple, rarely forking ends, cartilaginous, gelatinous; yolk-yellow to orange-yellow; smooth, lubricous, (Breitenbach), either smooth or longitudinally wrinkled, not obviously demarcated into stem and fertile part, although this may be more obvious with drying, (Reid)

Microscopic:
spores 7-10(12) x 3-4.5 microns, cylindric to slightly curved-cylindric, thin-walled with thin septa, tinted, apiculate, becoming 1-septate at maturity, germination by colorless spherical conidia or by germ tubes; probasidia 20-35 x 3-4.5 microns, cylindric-subclavate, with basal septa, becoming bifurcate; hymenium smooth or occasionally folded or wrinkled, consisting of basidia and occasionally simple cylindric dikaryophyses; composition otherwise "homogeneous, of thin-walled, septate, roughened hyphae, showing in transverse section an organisation into three zones, clamp connections absent", (McNabb), spores 7-10 x 2.5-4(5) microns, cylindric-elliptic, slightly curved (allantoid), smooth, inamyloid, colorless, with one septum, with drops; basidia 30-40 x 2.5-4 microns, fork-shaped, without basal clamp connection; cystidia not seen; hyphae in part with thick gelatinized walls, 2-4 microns wide, clamp connections absent, (Breitenbach), spores yellow in mass, very pale yellow or colorless by transmitted light, (Martin)