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Crawford, D.A. 1954: Studies on New Zealand Clavariaceae. I. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 82(3): 617-631.

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Crawford, D.A. 1954: Studies on New Zealand Clavariaceae. I. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 82(3): 617-631.
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Fruit body -6 , cm high, caespitose to solitary, flesh dull pink-fawn, basal region whitish, tough when fresh, drying horny fuscous with paler tips: branch¬ing polychotomous and expanded at first, finally dichotomous; branches often terete, especially the ultimates which are subparallel and taper to fine pointed tips, or in some shorter stouter plants flattened with more rounded, blunter tips. Spores 7-11 x 5-7 (-7.7) µm white, smooth, thin walled with granular contents, bluntly ellipsoid to lachrymiform; apicule subterminal –1.6 µm. Basidia 1, 2 or 4 spored, 60-95 µm long x 10-11 µm wide, tapering to 3-4 µm at base, cruciately subseptate, septa extending 4-9µm down into basidia, clamped at base sterigmata 6-14 µm long x 2-5 µm, tapered, erect with a slight outward curvature. Some sterigmata elongate, forming hypha-like projections 1.7 µm wide, with rounded ends. (In specimen No. 114 some old basidia up to 94 µm long, embedded in. the thickening hymenium, had become once or twice septate; c.f. some Clavulina species. No young basidia were septate. ) Hymenium thickening –95 µm composed of mature basidia and narrow un¬expanded hyphal ends mostly derived from the elongation of old sterigmata; absent from base of the stem. Hyphae 2.5-3.5 µm wide, monomitic, not inflated, clamped, walls slightly thickened.
DISTRIBUTION: Bay of Islands, and Wellington, New Zealand, also Brazil and Sumatra (Corner, 1953, p. 350).

The above description is based on the type and on collection Nos. 105 and 114, from Keith George Memorial Park, Wellington, and No. 206, Waikaremoana, Nth. Is., New Zealand. From the description of specimens from Brazil and Sumatra, (Corner 1953, p. 350) it is probable they are specimens of T. flagelliformis, but without detail of basidia one cannot be absolutely certain.

COLLECTION: Kew Herbarium, under Lachnocladium flagelliforme, Bay of Islands, New Zealand
 

Fruit body -3-5 cm high, solitary, greyish-white: branched 3 to 4 times, at first trichotomously finally dichotomously; branches smooth, grey-brown, cylindrical; stalk distinct, tinged with brown; apices swollen and irregularly thickened, whitish-grey. Growing at the side of the track to Butterfly Creek, Eastbourne, Wellington, New Zealand (D. A. Crawford, and J. H. Warcup No. 68, June, 1946). Spores 3-5 x 2.5-4 µm, white, smooth walled, drop shaped, aguttate to once guttulate, apiculus terminal. Basidia 3.4-5 µm wide by –21 µm long, clavate, slender, clamped at base; sterigmata (2-) 4, 4-5 µm long with a slight outward curvature. Hymenium amphigenous, absent from stalk and lower parts of branches, -25 µm wide. Colour in cytoplasm of hymenium layer. The swollen apices in transverse section show a pseudoparenchymatous central medulla of longitudinal hyphae, surrounded by an inflated aerenchymatous region, traversed by strands of loosely interwoven hyphae, passing from the central medulla to an outer compact region underlying the irregularly convoluted hymenium, and filling the knob-like projections (see text-fig. IV). Apparently growth in the apical region becomes localized at a number of areas, giving rise at first to fairly regular rounded projections, but later with further outward growth these extend and become more irregular.A transverse section of a branch below the swollen apex shows a central loose pseudoparenchymatous medulla surrounded by a uniform subhymenium and hymenium. Hyphae monomitic, 2-6 µm wide; not inflated, length variable, clamped; walls slightly thickened. Medullary hyphae elongated, a few interwoven; clamps often elongated, swollen or extended into a branch. In subhymenium hyphae narrower, shorter and interwoven, clamps normal. The swollen apices with their irregular growth separate this species from other members of the Clavariaceae. However, hyphal and basidial structure is in line with the characteristics of the family as is the amphigenous hymenium, extending from the upper branches to the apices.

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Receptacula ad 3.5 cm. alta, solitaria, ravoalba, ter vel quater divisa, primum trichotoma denique dichotoma, ramis levibus ravo-brunneolis : trunco distincto paulo brunneolo : apices inflati et impariter.incrassati : sporae albae 3-5 x 2.5-4 µm basidia tetrasporifera, attenuate et clavata : hyphae fibulatae 2-6 µm latae : ad terram nudam, Wellington, Novae Zealandeae.

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