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Species Information
Summary:
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Fruiting body: densely cespitose hanging subulate [awl-shaped] spines 0.04-0.06cm long and 0.01-0.02cm wide; each spine wax-like, soft, ending in a sharp conic point; white, but translucent and glass-like when wet; smooth to slightly farinose [granular]; the spines are attached directly to the wood without a subiculum, (Breitenbach), 0.1-0.3cm long, (Lloyd describes 0.6-2.5cm long), thin, rigid, scattered, (but var. aggregata not scattered); white, then pale, (Corner(2)), spines 0.07 x 0.006-0.01cm, (Corner(3) quoting Malencon for var. aggregata), 0.2-0.5(0.7)cm long, "hanging icicle-shaped spines, in a clustered growth"; bright white to watery white, "discoloring to slightly creamy in age", often "surrounded with fine whitish hairs at base", (Siegel(2)), 0.04-0.06cm long as a downward growing, pointed, and often curved, soft, waxy, spine; white, (Buczacki)
Flesh: wax-like, soft, (Breitenbach), white (Buczacki)
Odor: indistinct (Siegel)
Taste: indistinct (Siegel)
Microscopic: spores 4.5-6 x 3-4 microns, oval, smooth, colorless, without droplets; basidia 4-spored, 16-19 x 6-7 microns, clavate; cystidia not seen; hyphae monomitic, hyphae at base of fruiting body inflated, 5-10 microns wide, the other hyphae 2-4 microns wide, cylindric, and occasional septa with clamp connections, (Breitenbach), spores 4-6 x 3 microns, oblong, hardly depressed; basidia 12-18 x 4 microns; hyphae "3-6 microns wide, thin-walled, emerging in a sterile bundle at the tip of the fruiting body", (Corner(2)), spores 3.5-5(6) x 2-3 microns; basidia 4-spored, 15-22 x 3.5-4.5 microns; hyphae 3-6 microns, thin-walled, (Corner(3), quoting Pilat), spores pale blue amyloid (Corner(3)), spores 4.3-4.7(5.5) x 2.6-3.1 microns; basidia 4-spored, 9-15 x 5 microns, sterigmata 5-6 microns long; cystidia none; hyphae 2-4 microns wide, clamped, with many parallelepiped crystals between them, (Corner(3), quoting Malencon for var. aggregata), spores 4-6 x 2.5-3.5 microns, oblong to elliptic, smooth, (Siegel(2)), spores 5.5-6 x 4-6 microns, nearly round, smooth, amyloid, (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit: white (Buczacki)
Habitat / Range
on rotten pine wood (Corner(2)), on rotten conifer wood, (Corner(3) for BC specimen), in clusters, sometimes covering a fairly large area on sides or undersides of large, well-rotted conifer logs, often Douglas fir, (Siegel), on the underside of small rotten trunks of Picea (spruce) lying on the ground, (Breitenbach), in small to large groups, on rotting wood, usually old trunks or stumps of conifers, typically on the underside, occasionally on hardwood; late summer to fall, (Buczacki)
Similar Species
Mucronella bresadolae has larger spines, longer wider spores, and larger basidia, (Breitenbach).
