Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Details
Details
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Nomenclature
R.H. Petersen
R.H. Petersen
1988
invalidly published
ICN
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
species
Clavaria sp. 2
Classification
Descriptions
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
North Island: Auckland, Mill Bay, 3.vi.82, coll. GS, no. 43592 (TENN).
Fruit bodies up to 60 x 5 mm, simple clubs, fasciculate in groups of indeterminate numbers, brittle, fragile. Stipe pinched at base, up to 20 x 4 mm, not well marked from the club, pale rosy pink ("flesh-pink"), with flesh concolourous. Club appearing waxy, terete, pinkish orange to coral ("coral-red"), with flesh slightly darker; apex broadly rounded. Taste and odour negligible.
Tramal hyphae of club 3-8 µm diam., hyaline, clampless, parallel, tightly packed, including small crystalline deposits. Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous. Hymenium thickening; basidia 65-80 x 7-9 µm, narrowly clavate, bifurcate or clamped at base; contents with acicular crystals at maturity; sterigmata not observed. Spores not observed.
Tramal hyphae of club 3-8 µm diam., hyaline, clampless, parallel, tightly packed, including small crystalline deposits. Subhymenium extensive, pseudoparenchymatous. Hymenium thickening; basidia 65-80 x 7-9 µm, narrowly clavate, bifurcate or clamped at base; contents with acicular crystals at maturity; sterigmata not observed. Spores not observed.
Unfortunately, the only specimen of this handsome taxon was sterile; no fully mature basidia were seen, nor spores.
Fruit bodies are similar to those of Clavaria rubicundula but that species produces clampless basidia, placing it in subg. Clavaria, not subg. Holocoryne. Fasciculate fruit bodies are not common in subg. Holocoryne. Thus, this taxon seems to be more similar to C. gibbsiae and C. ardosiaca than to C. rubicundula.
A description is given here to bring attention to the taxon, which should be easily identified in the flora, and which may represent a new species.
Fruit bodies are similar to those of Clavaria rubicundula but that species produces clampless basidia, placing it in subg. Clavaria, not subg. Holocoryne. Fasciculate fruit bodies are not common in subg. Holocoryne. Thus, this taxon seems to be more similar to C. gibbsiae and C. ardosiaca than to C. rubicundula.
A description is given here to bring attention to the taxon, which should be easily identified in the flora, and which may represent a new species.
Taxonomic concepts
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Clavaria sp. 2 sensu R.H. Petersen (1988)
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Clavaria sp. 2 sensu R.H. Petersen (1988)
Clavaria sp. 2 R.H. Petersen 1988
Identification keys
Metadata
1cb1d34d-36b9-11d5-9548-00d0592d548c
scientific name
Names_Fungi
23 March 2001
10 October 2019
