Macrotyphula fistulosa (Fr.) R.H. Petersen
pipe club
Typhulaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
pipe club
Typhulaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
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 and Range
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).Habitat
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)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Helvella queletii Bres.
Peziza solitaria P. Karst.