Typhula phacorrhiza Fr.
no common name
Typhulaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Typhulaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
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Species Information
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 and Range
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).Habitat
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)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Clavaria phacorrhiza Pers.
Clavaria scutellata de Bary
Hypoxylon bartholomaei Peck
Nummularia bartholomaei (Peck) Lar. N. Vassilyeva
Typhula subphacorrhiza Britzelm.