Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Platygloeales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Ramaria flaccida
 
   
   
 Author:

Basionym: Clavaria flaccida Fr., Syst. Myc. 1: 471. 1821.

Ramaria flaccida (Fr.) Ricken, Rev. Sci. Bourbonn. 11: 235. 1898.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Fruit body coral-like 4-5 cm tall and 2.5-7 cm across, trunk stipelike, grayish yellow to ocher-yellow, smooth. Flesh white fibrous, tough. Spores elliptical, verrucose-spinose, hyaline to yellow, 6-9 × 3-4 μm, I-. Cystidia not seen. Basidia slenderly clavate, 25-30 × 4-6 μm, with 4 sterigmata and basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2-5 μm across, septa with clamp.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Taichung: Anmashan, 17 Aug. 1995, W.N. Chou, CWN 01187 (TNM F3798).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On soil in conifer forests
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Cosmopolitan

 
 
 
 References:

Coker, WC. 1974; Corner, EJH. 1950.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
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