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Multiclavula R.H.Petersen

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Multiclavula R.H.Petersen, Amer. Midl. Naturalist 77: 207 (1967)
Multiclavula R.H.Petersen

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Indigenous, non-endemic
Wild
New Zealand
Political Region
genus of c. 15 species; three in New Zealand

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R.H.Petersen
R.H.Petersen
1967
207
ICN
genus
Multiclavula

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Multiclavula

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Multiclavula R.H.Petersen

Clavarioid fungi often forming a lichenised association with the green alga . Fruiting bodies to 4 cm tall and to 2 mm thick, simple or sparingly branched, white, pinkish, yellowish-ochre or orange, tough when wet, brittle when dry. Contextual hyphae parallel, tightly packed towards base of fruiting body, loosely arranged towards apex, thin or very slightly thick-walled, branched, anastomosing, clamped or unclamped, occasionally adglutinated, little inflated. Subhymenial hyphae parallel with contextual hyphae, thin-walled, relatively straight, producing basidia as side branches. Basidia short, ± stout, weakly sterigmate. Basidiospores ovoid or ellipsoid to elongate-ovoid or elongate-ellipsoid, thin-walled, aguttulate to multiguttulate or granular, smooth, white in prints.

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Multiclavula R.H.Petersen
Multiclavula R.H.Petersen

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
18 July 2011
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