Ramaria avellaneovertex
R.H. Petersen
Description:
A small, obpyramidal coral fungus with pallid cream-white branches and distinctly lavender-tinged young apices that fade to vinaceous-buff and cream. Flesh is watery.

Fruitbody: Slender, to 60 x 25 mm, obpyramidal in profile, repeatedly branched. Stipe single, to 23 x 6 mm, tapering downward, rounded at the base, sometimes with a few aborted branchlets; of-white; flesh watery except near the stipe, becoming soapy or slippery when rubbed.
Branch colour : 2 to several, arising at roughly the same level, to 4 mm thick, terete, ascending to erect. Colour pallid greyish yellow, axils narrowly rounded; internodes gradually diminishing.
Apices: Short, stout, cuspidate to dichotomous. When young, distinctly pallid lavender, later muting to vinaceous buff to cream buff with age.
Odour/taste: negligible.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaf and Myrtaceae forest
Substrate: Soil
Distribution: New Zealand
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Tan
Macro images:
Ramaria avellaneovertex
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PDD 94176     Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria avellaneovertex
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PDD 94176     Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria avellaneovertex
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PDD 92065    Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria avellaneovertex
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PDD 92065    Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria avellaneo-vertex
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PDD 92065    Scale= 5 mm.
 
Ramaria avellaneovertex
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PDD 94175    Scale= 10 mm.
 
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