Cudoniella clavus (Alb. & Schwein. ex Fr.) Dennis
no common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Clubs category. Features include a small, concave, stemmed fruiting body that becomes convex with a reflexed margin, the color whitish to grayish to buff or reddish, often with violaceous tints; surface smooth, stem darker at base; growth on rotting twigs and leaves, especially those covered by water; and microscopic characters.
Odor:
not distinctive (MykoWeb)
Taste:
not distinctive (MykoWeb)
Microscopic:
spores 10-17 x 3-5 microns, oblong-fusiform, often narrower at one end; asci 8-spored, up to 115 x 10 microns, varying greatly in length, cylindric-clavate, (Phillips), spores 10-17 x 3-5 microns, oblong-fusiform, often narrower at one end, nonseptate, uniseriate or irregularly biseriate; asci 8-spored, up to 115 x 10 microns, varying greatly in length, cylindric-clavate; paraphyses slender, cylindric, (Dennis), spores (8)9.5-15 x (3.5)4-5 microns, elliptic-fusiform, smooth, colorless, without droplets; asci 8-spored, (90)100-115 x 9-10 microns; inamyloid; paraphyses filiform, septate, sometimes forked, (Breitenbach), spores 10-17 x 3-5 microns, non-septate, (Hansen), 9.5-17.5 x 3.5-4.5 microns, oblong-cylindric to subfusiform, smooth, (MykoWeb)
Notes:
It is found in the Pacific Northwest (Phillips), Europe including Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, (Hansen), the United Kingdom (Dennis), and Switzerland (Breitenbach). It is probably the same as Ombrophila clavus (A. & S.) Cooke, reported from New England to WA, (Seaver), and CA (MykoWeb). There are collections from BC at the University of British Columbia.
EDIBILITY
no (Phillips), unknown (MykoWeb)
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
See also SIMILAR section of Peziza oliviae.Habitat
on wet, rotting twigs and leaves, in ditches and swamps, also on dead stems; August to October, (Phillips), gregarious or single, best developed "on rotting twigs and leaves covered with water, as in ditches and swamps, but also on dead stems of Chamaenerion and the like, May and June, sometimes in July", (Dennis), single to gregarious, on dead twigs of trees and shrubs, as well as woody remains of herbs, always in very wet places such as wheel ruts and drainage ditches, spring to summer, (Breitenbach), on submerged leaves and barkless twigs, spring to early summer, (Hansen), single to gregarious on rotting stems of grasses and herbs in boggy mountain meadows, in spring shortly after snow melt, (MykoWeb)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Cudoniella aquatica (Lib.) Sacc.