On bare soil under tree ferns and kauri.

Receptacula ad 40 x 3 mm, simplicia, solitaria vel gregaria, translucentia, cremea vel pallide olivacea. Hyphis efibulatis; basidiis fibulatis. Sporis globosis vel subglobosis, laevibus, ut in oratione infra.

Except for fruit body colour, the taxon resembles Clavaria acuta. Fruit bodies of the latter taxon are white to off-white, but also often appear subtranslucent. As noted elsewhere (Petersen 1984), however, microscopic characters, especially spores, are boringly repetitious in parts of the subgenus, so the epithet acuta may shelter more than one taxon.
I am equally dubious about this taxon, for one collection had buff fruit bodies (TENN no. 42408), the others had pale greenish yellow fruit bodies (TENN no. 42382, 42428, s.n., etc). In other respects they were identical.
In the field, the taxon is easily confused with Clavaria luteo-tenerrima Over which produces fruit bodies of similar stature and colour. That taxon is placed in subg. Clavulinopsis, for septa are universally clamped.