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Summary:
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Fruiting body: 1.5-5.5cm high, club-shaped; very viscid, becoming gelatinous when wet; fertile upper part 0.3-0.6cm wide, 1/3- 1/2 the length, compressed [flattened], club-shaped, oblong or ellipsoid; black, (Mains), 5-8cm high, viscid-gelatinous; spore-bearing upper part 0.5-1cm wide and 1.5-2.5cm long, clavate or narrowly elliptic, more or less compressed, apex obtuse, not sharply differentiated from stem; black, (Seaver), 1.5-6cm tall, cylindric to club-shaped, upper fertile part 0.3-0.6cm wide, "often flattened or slightly twisted but otherwise not sharply differentiated from lower portion (stalk)"; black; "smooth, viscid (at least when moist)", (Arora)
Flesh: tough, not gelatinous; usually brownish, (Arora)
Stem: 0.2-0.3cm wide, round in cross-section, brown to brownish black, (Mains), 4-6cm x 0.3-0.4cm, round in cross-section or slightly compressed; brown or brownish black; very smooth and viscid, covered to the base by the paraphyses, (Seaver), comprising lower 1/3 to 2/3 of fruiting body, 0.2-0.3cm wide; dark brown to black; "viscid when moist, usually smooth", (Arora)
Microscopic: spores (55)60-90(100) x 4-5 microns, subcylindric [nearly cylindric], slightly narrowing toward one or both ends, straight to slightly curved, brown, 0-7-septate, many collections mostly 3-septate, others mostly 7-septate; asci 8-spored, 175-250 x 12-14 microns, clavate; paraphyses straight to somewhat curved in upper part, narrowly cylindric in lower part, sparsely septate, with the terminal cells pyriform [pear-shaped], broadly obovoid or nearly spherical, continuing down the stem in a thick gelatinous layer; colorless in lower part, light to dark brown in upper part or entirely dark brown, (Mains), spores 55-102 x 5-6 microns, multiseriate in ascus, cylindric, or slightly narrowed toward the rounded ends, fuliginous, at first simple, then 3-septate, finally in most cases 7-septate; asci 8-spored, reaching a length of 250 microns and a width of 12-15 microns, narrowly clavate, narrowed from middle toward apex, the pore blue with iodine; paraphyses 3 microns thick, cylindric, septate, longer than asci, the apices pale brown and abruptly pyriform to globose thickened, 8-10 microns thick, (Seaver), 60-90 x 4-5 microns, smooth, brown, with 0-7 (usually 3 or 7) septa, (Arora)
Habitat / Range
scattered to cespitose [in tufts] on soil on hillsides and in wet places, under cedar and in hardwoods, (Mains), single or clustered, on the ground and on rotten wood, in rich woods, (Seaver), single, scattered, or in small groups "in humus, moss, or sometimes rotten wood, usually in the woods", (Arora)
Similar Species
Geoglossum fallax, Geoglossum glabrum, and Geoglossum umbratile are not viscid-gelatinous. Trichoglossum hirsutum and Trichoglossum velutipes are hirsute from setae.
