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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: very thin, up to 0.2cm wide, 3-10cm high when mature, cylindric or narrowing upward, tip acute or when old sometimes blunt; leather-colored to yellowish buff or pallid; smooth, (Arora), 3-7cm x 0.05-0.15cm, according to literature up to 15cm long, solid when young, later hollow; "ocher to orange-brownish, smooth", (Breitenbach), erect at first, but often becoming bent and twisted, (Barron), rather stiff and rigid, becoming flaccid when old, (Phillips)
Flesh: very thin (Arora), firm, tough, (Breitenbach), "firm, not brittle, juicy", (Phillips)
Stem: "base somewhat fibrillose and often creeping horizontally, often with large white mycelial threads (rhizomorphs) attached", (Arora), 1-2.5cm long, sometimes with lateral thorn-like outgrowths, "almost imperceptibly merging with the insignificantly thicker fertile part", somewhat darker than upper fertile part, base with white appressed hyphae, (Breitenbach)
Taste: sometimes acrid [peppery] (Arora), sourish (Breitenbach), unpleasant, sour, (Buczacki)
Microscopic: spores 6-12 x 3.5-5.5 microns, elliptic or almond-shaped, smooth, (Arora), spores 7-10 x 3.5-4 microns, amygdaliform [almond-shaped], smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 1-4-spored, 30-35 x 7-9 microns, clavate, clamped; caulocystidia toward base of stem up to 150 x 4 microns, hair-like, colorless, +/- thin-walled, sinuous; hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2-9 microns wide, with clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores 7-12 x 3.5-7 microns, almond-shaped, smooth, inamyloid; basidia 1-4-spored, 30-35 microns; hyphal system monomitic, (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit: white (Arora)
Habitat / Range
scattered to gregarious "in humus and leaf litter, on rotting twigs, etc.", in California on oak and tanoak leaves and redwood needles and "fairly common in the fall and winter, especially along streams and in other dank places", (Arora), usually gregarious, on "decomposing stems of herbs, bud scales, remains of leaves and twigs, in damp humusy locations", fall, (Breitenbach for Switzerland), on litter, especially on petioles of rotting leaves in damp hardwood woodland, most usually seen on ash, (Buczacki for Britain/Ireland)
Similar Species
Macrotyphula fistulosa has a very long (7-30cm), slender (0.2-0.8cm), hollow fruitbody that is yellowish to brownish, and grows on dead sticks and debris, especially of Alnus [alder], (Arora). Typhula phacorrhiza has a sclerotium (like other Typhula species) and has larger spores, (Breitenbach).
