Henningsomyces candidus (Pers.: Fr.) Kuntze
no common name
Marasmiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Marasmiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include minute whitish fruiting bodies like tall tubular cups growing in colonies on rotting coniferous and hardwood wood and bark, with fleeting subiculum, and microscopic characters including basidia.
Microscopic:
spores 3.5-6.0 x 3.0-5.0 or 3-6 x 3-6 microns, round to nearly round, or oval, smooth, apiculate, hyaline; basidia 14.5-21 x (4-5)-7-8 microns, 2-4-spored; ''cup'' covered with a fine network of clamped hyphae 1-2 microns in diameter, finely branched, forming a dichophysoid (repeatedly dichotomously branched) pellicle dichophysoid hyphae 10-25(50) x 0.5-1.0(1.5) microns; a palisade of dichophyses around margin of ''cup'', colorless, dichotomously branched, 1-2 microns in diameter, with slender tips, (Cooke), spores 5-7 x 4-5 microns, nearly round to broadly elliptic, smooth, colorless, inamyloid; basidia 2-4 spored, 13.5-20 x 5.5-7 microns, clavate; cystidioles 18-25 x 4-6 microns, fusiform; hyphal system dimitic, generative hyphae 2-3.5 microns wide, thin-walled, with obscure clamp connections, skeletal hyphae 1-2 microns wide, making up outer tomentum, slender, nonseptate, with frequent branching, often dendritic, (Gilbertson), spores 4.5-6 x 4-5 microns, nearly round, smooth, inamyloid; basidia 4-spored, 15-20 microns, clavate; cystidia absent; hyphal system monomitic; marginal hairs "white, smooth, very finely branched", (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)
Notes:
Henningsomyces candidus is found in BC, WA, OR, ID, and also NS, ON, PQ, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DE, FL, GA, IA, KY, LA, MA, ME, MI, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, and WA, (Ginns), and Bermuda, Jamaica, Panama, Trinidad, Brazil, Ecuador, Chile, Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Macedonia, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom, Sri Lanka, Japan, Turkey, Algeria, Morocco, Sierra Leone, Tunisia, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, and Tristan da Cunha, (Cooke).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Henningsomyces puber has dichophytic hairs except at the extreme margin, whereas H. candidus is almost bald with dichophytic hairs only in the region near the extreme margin, (Reid(4)).Habitat
on rotting coniferous and hardwood wood and bark (Cooke), on hardwood and conifer wood: bark and wood, barkless and decaying wood, rotten wood, twigs, dead branches, rotten logs, old plank; associated with a white rot, (Ginns), single "or in densely tufted or trooping groups" on rotting wood of hardwoods, all year, (Buczacki), spring, summer, fall, winter
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Hyphoderma puberum (Fr.) Wallr.
Thelephora pubera Fr.