Clavicorona taxophila (Thom) Doty
yew club
Auriscalpiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
yew club
Auriscalpiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Taste:
unknown (Dodd)
Microscopic:
spores 3.0-4.0(4.5) x (2.0)2.5-3.0(3.2) microns, nearly round, smooth or slightly asperulous [rough] (this only faintly discernible at high magnification (x3,200)), weakly amyloid (light blue green), white, thin-walled; basidia (2-)4-spored, 16-30 x 3.5-4.5 microns, narrowly clavate, almost cylindric, clamped; gloeocystidia 4.5 microns wide, usually not projecting but occasionally projecting up to 10 microns, with yellowish refractive contents or empty, cylindric, leptocystidia absent; hymenium plus subhymenium 30-50(60) microns thick, decurrent to about 0.5cm from base, not gelatinous; subhymenial generative hyphae 1.5-2.5 microns wide, short-celled, very tightly interwoven, without clamp connections, gloeoplerous hyphae as in context but occasional; context tissue slightly aerenchymatous in older fruitbodies only, generative hyphae up to 12 microns wide, inflated, colorless, thin-walled, without clamp connections, gloeoplerous hyphae "2.0-6.0 microns wide, rare, present only near subhymenium, often culminating in hymenium as gloeocystidia", (Dodd)
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)
Habitat and Range
Habitat
gregarious, usually single, occasionally paired, on leaf duff usually under conifers, often Taxus (yew), "appears to lack the lignicolous habit, but the fruit bodies are attached to twigs and needles in the duff on the ground", also on hardwood leaves though under Taxus, or on bare ground, (Dodd), single or 2-3 together, or subcespitose, on moist, very rotten leaves and twigs of hardwood trees and conifers under prostrate branches of Taxus brevifolia (Pacific Yew) and Pseudotsuga menziesii (Douglas-fir), (Corner), mostly growing erect from small bits of charred wood, needles, and small twigs and among mosses under heavy cover of small Douglas-firs in dense coniferous woods, October, (Doty), fall to winter (Buczacki)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Clavaria taxophila (Thom) Lloyd
Craterellus taxophilus Thom.
Polyporus spumeus Sowerby: Fr.
Sarcodontia spumea (Sowerby) Spirin Mycena 1(1): 64-71. 2001 (proposed