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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: 0.5-4(5)cm tall, sharply differentiated head is 0.1-0.7(1)cm wide and high, roundish to cylindric; pinkish-buff to pale flesh-colored to light brown; smooth; flesh thin, (Arora), 0.3-2cm high, head 0.05-0.2cm wide and 0.1-0.7cm high, cylindric to hemispheric, light brown to pinkish buff, sharply distinct from stem, (Mains), 2-3cm tall, with distinct head and stem, head up to 0.3cm wide, helmet-shaped to cylindric, 1/5 to 1/4 the height of the fruiting body; yellow-brown to brown-ocher, smooth, (Breitenbach)
Flesh: thin (Arora)
Stem: 0.5-3(4)cm x 0.1-0.4(0.7)cm, equal or tapered slightly; light to dark brown, usually darker than head; smooth or slightly powdery in upper part, often with brown hairs at base, (Arora), 0.02-0.07cm wide, very slender, round in cross-section; light to dark brown; slightly pruinose in upper part, often with a brown tomentum in lower part, (Mains), up to 0.1cm wide, cylindric, colored as cap but somewhat darker toward the base; smooth, finely frosted, (Breitenbach)
Microscopic: spores 10-14 x 2-2.5 microns, elongate, smooth, not septate, colorless, (Arora), spores 10-14 x 2-2.5 microns, fusoid [spindle-shaped], subfalcate [somewhat sickle-shaped] or narrowly cymbiform [boat-shaped], acuminate [narrowing gradually to a point] at both ends or acuminate at one end and rounded at the other, straight or slightly curved, one-celled; asci 50-70 x 4-6 microns, clavate; paraphyses slender, clavate, colorless, branched in lower part, (Mains), spores 11-15 x 1.7-2.5 microns, cylindric-fusiform, smooth, colorless, not septate, with several droplets; asci 8-spored, 70-75 x 5-7 microns; paraphyses filiform, tips with slight clavate thickenings, (Breitenbach)
Habitat / Range
scattered to densely gregarious in needle duff under northern and mountain conifers, sometimes in large carpets on forest floor, spring, summer and fall, (Arora), scattered on fallen needles of conifers (spruce, hemlock, fir and larch), (Mains), growing singly on conifer needles, but gregariously, (Breitenbach)
