Phaeoclavulina species
(Mt Lees)
Description:
Tiny, extremely delicate ochre to honey‑tan coral fungus with hair‑fine dichotomous apices, white rhizomorphic base,

Fruitbody: Slender, arbuscular, and extremely delicately branched, to 35 x 13 mm, arising from a small tangle of very fine, pure‑white rhizomorphic strands. Fresh fruit bodies are yellow‑ochre throughout, slowly deepening with age to ochre or fleshy tan.
Stipe: Up to 13 × 2 mm, usually discrete; terete to weakly lobed in cross‑section; concolorous or slightly paler than branches.
Branches: Major branches very slender, pliant but not flaccid; internodes gradually diminishing; axils rounded. Apices extremely fine, dichotomous, often hair‑like.
Odour/taste: Odour faint, earthy. Taste distinctly bitter.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest
Substrate: Saprobic, growing from soil
Distribution: North Island
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Indigenous, non-endemic
Edible: No
Spore print: Tan
Macro images:
Phaeoclavulina ochracea
Scale bar
Scale= 8 mm.
I'm always concerned when I key out a species and It looks a lot diffrent to other that I found like these been paler.
Phaeoclavulina ochracea
Scale bar
Scale= 8 mm.
 
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