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

Summary:

Not available

Fruiting body:
0.8-1.5cm tall, consisting of stem and head, erect, straight or slightly curved; head 0.3-0.8cm x 0.08-0.15cm, cylindric-subclavate, blunt (apex fertile), solid; white or avellaneous

Stem:
0.3-0.4cm x 0.02-0.05cm, rufescent-brown to wood-brown, base often blackish; minutely puberulous [downy], especially at base; sclerotium 0.05-0.4cm wide, convexo-plane, erumpent or superficial, dark brown to chestnut, drying blackish, smooth or slightly rough

Microscopic:
spores 11.5-15.5 x 4-8 microns, ovate, apiculus slight; basidia 4-spored, 31-39 x 6-8 microns; hyphae of head and stem incrusted; cortex of sclerotium composed of single or double layer of agglutinated hyphae with fairly wide lumen, cuticle 7-12 microns thick reddish brown, medulla composed of free interwoven incrusted hyphae