E-Flora BC: Electronic Atlas of the Flora of British Columbia

Typhula setipes (Grev.) Berthier
no common name
Typhulaceae

Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.

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Species Information

Summary:

Not available
Fruiting body:
up to about 0.2-0.3cm tall, consisting of sterile stem and fertile head, capitate or clavate; head 0.05-0.1cm x 0.02-0.04cm, "whitish to cream-colored, smooth, hyaline", (Breitenbach)
Flesh:
very soft, fragile; white to colorless, (Buczacki)
Stem:
cylindric, longer than head; somewhat darker than head, brownish toward the base; finely pubescent [downy]; base sometimes thickened and anchored to substrate with fine hyphae, without recognizable sclerotium, or sometimes arising from sclerotium, (Breitenbach)
Odor:
indistinct (Buczacki)
Taste:
indistinct (Buczacki)
Microscopic:
spores 7-8 x 3-3.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, amyloid, colorless; basidia 4-spored, 22-30 x 5-6 microns, slenderly conic, without basal clamp connection; caulocystidia up to 100 x 1 micron, filiform, sometimes branched, colorless; hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2.5-4 microns wide, colorless, thin-walled, "septa mostly without clamps, some hyphae rather thickened near the septa, occasionally incrusted with crystals", (Breitenbach), 7-10.5 x 3-4.5 microns, elliptic, smooth, amyloid; hyphal system monomitic, (Buczacki)
Spore Deposit:
white (Buczacki)

Habitat / Range

gregarious, scattered, on decomposing fallen leaves of various hardwoods, (Breitenbach), single or in small trooping groups; on decaying leaves of hardwoods, usually by streams, ponds and other wet habitats, (Buczacki)

Synonyms and Alternate Names

Craterellus humphreyi Burt

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Species References

Breitenbach(2)*, Redhead(5), Buczacki(1)*

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