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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: 6-15cm high, 0.3-0.5cm wide, cylindric, becoming flattened; white, becoming yellow when old; grooved, (Phillips), 6-12(15)cm tall, 0.3-0.5cm wide, simple, occasionally forked once, often curved or flexuous [wavy], cylindric, then elongate fusiform [spindle-shaped], becoming flattened, acute becoming blunt, solid then generally hollow; white, often yellowish toward tip, wholly pale yellowish when old; becoming sulcate [grooved], (Corner), 3-12(15)cm tall, 0.3-0.5cm wide, slender, erect or often curved, soon withering, unbranched or rarely forked at top, cylindric or flattened somewhat, usually tapered toward tip which is acute or blunt and often discolored; fruitbody white or stained yellow, and yellowing when old from top down; smooth or sometimes grooved, (Arora), becomes almost translucent when wet, (Lincoff)
Flesh: very fragile, brittle; white, (Phillips), very brittle (Corner), flesh thin, very brittle or fragile, white, (Arora)
Stem: indistinct, cluster branched only at base, (Phillips), "indistinct, as a short, slightly narrower, sterile basal part", (Corner)
Odor: none (Corner), vaguely of green corn (Miller)
Taste: none (Corner), mild (Miller)
Microscopic: spores 5-7 x 3-4 microns, elliptic, smooth, (Phillips), spores 5-7 x 3-4 microns, elliptic or pip-shaped, smooth, thin-walled, generally without droplets "or very finely granular guttulate", sometimes with one droplet; basidia 4-spored, 30-45 x 6-8 microns, clavate, finely multiguttulate, without clamp connection; cystidia none; hyphae of flesh 3-16 microns wide, the cells 25-80 microns long (occasionally up to 150 microns long), the narrow hyphae with longer cells, longitudinal, compact, slightly constricted at septa, secondarily septate, thin-walled, without clamp connections, (Corner), spores 5-7 x 3-4 microns, elliptic to nearly round, smooth, (Arora)
Spore Deposit: white (Phillips, Arora)
Habitat / Range
often in huge masses in mossy soil under conifers, especially spruce, (Trudell), in tufts or clusters in moist soil, grass, fields, and woods, (Phillips), densely cespitose [in tufts] in tufts of 20-50, occasionally in tufts of 3-6 or gregarious, rarely single, among grass or on bare soil in fields and woods, (Corner), in tufts, clusters, or groups, on ground in woods or grassy places, (Arora), summer and fall (Miller)
Similar Species
Clavaria acuta is usually smaller, grows singly to gregariously (or more rarely in clusters), has a stem more differentiated in color, has wider spores, and has medallion clamp connections at the bases of the basidia, (Breitenbach).
