Summary:
Features of Ramaria distinctissima var. americana include 1) medium size, with outline ovate, 2) branches pinkish flesh-colored to salmon, 3) tips bright orange when young and fresh, fading when old to the same color as the upper branches, 4) yellow to golden yellow lower branches and upper stem, 5) base white and tomentose, 6) long spores that have scattered warts and meandering ridges, and 7) clamp connections. The description is derived from Petersen(2) except where noted.

Chemical Reactions:
ferric chloride in water positive reaction, probably with branch sections, (Petersen), ferric sulphate in water negative on stem flesh, stem flesh inamyloid, (Exeter)

Odor:
negligible

Taste:
negligible

Microscopic:
spores 12.6-16.3 x 4.8-6.3(7.0) microns, average 13.7 x 5.3 microns, elliptic to subboletoid, often flattened adaxially, conspicuously roughened in profile, scattered prominent cyanophilous warts and short meandering ridges, 1 to several droplets, the droplets amorphous, dark yellow, and semi-refringent, spore wall up to 0.3 microns thick, hilar appendix not very prominent; basidia (3-)4-spored, 60-70 x 10-13 microns, broadly clavate, clamped, contents homogeneous when young, with scattered refringent guttules at maturity; clamp connections often on tramal hyphae of upper branches, and usually not on tramal hyphae of stem

Notes:
Collections were examined from BC and ID (Petersen(2)).

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Odontia fimbriata Pers.