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Summary:
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Fruiting body: 2-6(10)cm x 0.05-0.1cm, slightly clavate toward top; cream to honey-yellow, elastic and tough; upper 2/3 smooth and fertile except blunt tip which is sterile, (Breitenbach), 2.5-10(14)cm high, thread-like; white, then cream, brownish, yellow-ochraceous or pale ochraceous-brown; head scarcely distinguishable from stem, 1-2cm x 0.05-0.1cm, filiform-cylindric, with acute sterile tip, (Corner(2))
Flesh: rather tough, elastic; pale brown, (Buczacki)
Stem: lower 1/3 of fruitbody sterile, indistinctly set off from the upper part and somewhat darker, smooth, slightly tomentose toward the base; arising from lens-shaped pale brown sclerotium 0.2-0.4cm long, which is gelatinous within, (Breitenbach), 0.03-0.08cm wide, very variable in height, flexuous [wavy], thread-like, rather horny cartilaginous; sparsely puberulous [downy] at least near base; sclerotium 0.1-0.6(0.8)cm x 0.15-0.35cm, flattened, sometimes lobed and irregular, pallid then tawny, russet or orange-brown to dark brown, superficial, adherent by a minute dark brown or reddish brown stalk, smooth then rugose on drying, very cartilaginous, (Corner(2))
Odor: indistinct (Buczacki)
Taste: indistinct (Buczacki)
Microscopic: spores 11-15 x 4.5-5.5 microns, cylindric-elliptic, smooth, inamyloid, colorless; basidia 2-4-spored, 18-25 x 8-9 microns, no basal clamp connection observed, but another author reports clamp connections; caulocystidia up to 40 x 5-6 microns, clavate to cylindric, colorless, also branched; hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 4-12 microns wide, colorless, thin-walled to thick-walled, septa usually without clamp connections, somewhat constricted at septa, scattered hyphae incrusted with crystals, (Breitenbach), spores (9)11-15(20) x 4-8 microns, very variable, elliptic or subcylindric, smooth, white, thin-walled, without droplets; basidia 2-4-spored, 20-33 x 9-12 microns, clavate, without clamp connections, sterigmata 6-8 microns long; cystidia none; caulocystidia up to 80 x 4-6 microns, "slightly tapered or subcylindric, slightly thick-walled at the base, colorless, smooth, aseptate, reduced in the upper part of the stem to short subclavate processes like sterile basidia"; subhymenium practically none, deeper hyphae "3-16 microns wide, with long or short cells, slightly constricted at the septa, without clamps except on some of the narrow superficial hyphae of the stem, with agglutinated walls, firmly mucilaginous in the stem, rather softly in the head", with abundant coarse, dark brown crystals among the superficial hyphae of the stem and head, the superficial hyphae of the stem slightly thick-walled and toughly agglutinated; medulla of sclerotium wholly and toughly agglutinated, sometimes filamentous in center or hollow when large, cuticle up to 10 microns thick, (Corner), spores 12-16 x 4.5-5.5 microns, cylindric to elliptic, smooth, inamyloid; hyphal system monomitic, (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit: white (Buczacki)
Habitat / Range
gregarious and cespitose, sometimes 2-3 per sclerotium, on decomposing fallen leaves of various hardwoods, (Breitenbach), single or occasionally 2-3 per sclerotium, on dead leaves, petioles, herbaceous stems and grasses, (Corner)
Similar Species
Macrotyphula juncea does not produce sclerotia and has smaller spores, (Breitenbach). Typhula erythropus is found in similar habitats but is shorter with a distinct club and is white rather than honey-yellow, (Breitenbach). Typhula incarnata has a more distinct head and a pinkish fruiting body, (Bruehl).
