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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937

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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai, Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 15 56 (1937)
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937

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Indigenous
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New Zealand
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Type Japan. Petersen's concept is cf. acuta. Collections require a confirmatory sequence [JAC]

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S. Ito & S. Imai
S. Ito & S. Imai
1937
56
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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
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Clavaria subacuta

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subacuta

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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937

Fruit bodies up to 35 x 2.5 mm, simple clubs, densely cespitose in groups of up to 8 individuals, not fasciculate, arising from very small white mycelial pads. Stipe up to 2 mm thick, hardly distinguishable from club, white to cream ("light pinkish cinnamon"), glabrous, not brittle. Club appearing waxy, white to ivory ("cream buff"), tapering somewhat upward, not brittle; apex narrowly rounded.
Odour and taste negligible.
Tramal hyphae of club hyaline, unclamped, parallel, thin-walled, of two types: 4-15 µm diam., of long cells, unbranched; and 1.5-3 µm diam., meandering, commonly branched, and anastomosed. Subhymenium rudimentary. Hymenium thickening; basidia 35-45 x 7-8 µm, clavate, simple-septate, not refringent, empty but persistent after spore discharge; sterigmata 4, slender, erect.
Spores 4.3-5.0x3.2-3.6 µm (E = 1.20-1.44; Em = 1.31; Lm = 4.56 µm), subglobose to ovate or broadly ellipsoid, smooth, thin-walled; contents uniguttulate when mature and fresh; hilar appendix prominent, papillate.
North Island: WKR, vic. Forestry Headquarters, 29.v.82, coll. GS, no. 43585 (TENN); WR, 29.iv.83, coll. RHP, no. 44086 (TENN); WR, Karamatura Stream, 1.vii.81, coll. EH, no. 1034 (ZT).
South Island: Nelson, road to Mt Arthur Track, 14.v.82, coll. RHP, no. 43591 (TENN).
This was collected under the name Clavaria vermicularis, for fruit bodies appear similar to juveniles of that species. On closer examination, however, fruit bodies were noted not to be truly fasciculate (i.e., arising from a multiple primordium below the substrate surface), but densely cespitose. Moreover, spores are too small for C. vermicularis.
I have not examined the type specimen of Clavaria subacuta, so I use that epithet tentatively, lto & Imai (1937) described its fruit bodies as fasciculate, but my trouble with that term leads me to a broad interpretation of their use. Corner (1950; p.220), in his .key to Clavaria taxa, added the character "basidia without clamps," but I do not know the source of that phrase, which did not originate in the species circumscription.
Of course, I am led to this epithet by the presence of white fruit bodies, simple clubs, and small spores. In my material, spores are very scarce and easily overlooked, and very few have remained uniguttulate through drying.

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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai (1937)
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai (1937)
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai (1937)
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai (1937)
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937

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Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
New Zealand
Mid Canterbury
Clavaria subacuta S. Ito & S. Imai 1937
New Zealand
Westland

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1cb1b06b-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
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19 March 1996
25 September 2000
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