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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: 3-20cm high, 0.5-1cm wide, erect, slenderly clavate [club-shaped], stiff, tip blunt and "sometimes rather irregularly tuberculate", upper fertile part about 2/3 of the height, hollow; ocher-yellow to reddish-ocher-brown, (Breitenbach), brownish ocher (Courtecuisse), 7-30cm x 0.2-0.8cm, yellowish to brownish, (Arora), 10-30cm x 0.2-0.8(1.3)cm, simple, thread-like, becoming hollow, cylindric with acute tip, becoming narrowly subclavate [somewhat club-shaped] and blunt, even subtruncate [ending almost squarely] at first; often contorted in lower part, spore-bearing area covers upper two thirds; yellow then tawny, rufescent or ferruginous or finally sometimes date brown, (Corner), sometimes finely warty at base, upper spore-bearing part +/- finely warty, blunt at tip; flesh elastic, tough, yellowish, (Buczacki)
Flesh: elastic, tough; yellowish, (Breitenbach), firm, rather rigid; yellowish, (Corner)
Stem: base tapered and sometimes finely pubescent [downy], (Breitenbach), often villous and rooting or decumbent [lying down flat], (Corner), stem not differentiated (Buczacki)
Chemical Reactions: no reaction in FeCl3 plus ethanol (Petersen(20))
Odor: none (Breitenbach, Corner)
Taste: none (Breitenbach, Corner)
Microscopic: spores 10-15 x 5.5-8 microns, elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 50-60 x 6-11 microns, slenderly clavate, sinuous, with basal clamp connection; cystidia not seen; hyphae monomitic, 3-11 microns wide, with clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores 10-18.5 x 4.5-9 microns, narrowly elliptic or subfusiform [somewhat spindle-shaped], smooth, white, thin-walled, finely granular-guttulate content; basidia 4-spored, 40-65 x 8-11.5 microns; cystidia none; hyphae 1.5-15 microns wide, with clamp connections, with scattered, frequently branched, laticiferous hyphae 3-9 microns wide, ending in the hymenium with round tips like gloeocystidia, (Corner), hyphal system monomitic (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit: white (Buczacki)
Habitat / Range
single to gregarious, occasionally in masses, on hardwood and conifer wood, (Breitenbach), on dead sticks and debris, especially of alder, (Arora), single or gregarious, never cespitose, on dead sticks and branches of coniferous and hardwood trees, (Corner), on soil among litter in hardwood woodland, often with birch, (Buczacki)
Similar Species
Macrotyphula juncea 1) is very thin (3-10cm high and up to 0.2cm thick), and leather-colored to yellowish buff or pallid, 2) has spores 6-12 x 3.5-5 microns, 3) has sometimes acrid [peppery] taste, and 4) occurs in humus and leaf litter, on rotting twigs, etc., (Arora).
