| Bibliography: | Young, A.M.; Fechner, N.A., 2009, Australasian Mycologist 28: 65 (more info)
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| Year of publication: | 2009 |
| Status of the name: | basionym; legitimate |
| MycoBank's opinion: | currently used |
| Classification: | Fungi, Basidiomycota, Agaricomycotina, Agaricomycetes, Phallomycetidae, Gomphales, Gomphaceae, Ramaria |
| Obligate synonym(s): | none |
| Morphic status: | Teleomorph (anamorph connection(s) unknown or not recorded) |
Taxonomic synonym(s):
Ordered by epithet name | none |
Descriptions:
 | Latin diagnosis
Basidiomata ad 8.0 × 7.5 cm, ramosa, in circumscriptione obconica ad obtriangularia. Apicibus citrinis, cuspidatis, sicci; ramis subflavidis, cylindricis, glaberis, ramulis numerosis, subflavidis; axillis rotundis; stipite indivisibilis, ad 80 × 75 cm, albis, glaberis. Sporis (6.5-)7.9-10.4(-11.0) × 4.0-6.8(-7.2) µm, ovoideis ad ellipsoideis, verruculosis; basidiis (46-)52-79(-90) × 9.5-13 µm, sterigmatibus 4; hyphis 5-15 µm latis, afibulatis. In humo in silvis.
Original description
Basidiomata 4.5-8.0 × 3.0-7.5 cm (height × width); overall shape obconical to obtriangular with the apices loosely clustered so that an open but 'cauliflower-like' appearance is produced; apices bright lemon-yellow, short and blunt-rounded, never inflating or fusing, dichotomous to ±cuspidate in groups of five, dry at all stages; branches at first white where they leave the stipe, but then soon yellow tinted upwards, with the yellow becoming more intense on the branches just below the apices, major branches about four in number, then producing clusters of smaller branches, angular near the stipe becoming cylindrical and then 'compressed', smooth, dry; axils deep V-shaped but rounded at the base of the V, without groove running from the axil down the branch; stipe 3.0-5.0 × 1.0-2.0 cm, white, ±cylindrical, smooth; aborted branches present. Flesh white, solid, ± fibrous, without any colour change. Odour 'mushroomy'. Taste not recorded. Rhizomorphs absent, or if present then very poorly developed, white, soft, short.
Macrochemical reactions: not recorded.
Basidiospores (6.5-)7.9-10.4(-11.0) × 4.0-6.8(-7.2) µm, mean 8.9 × 5.4 µm, Q: 1.4-2.0(-2.3), mean Q: 1.68, broadly oval to ellipsoidal, frequently uniguttulate, ornamentation of low and randomly scattered warts, profile very finely rough and uneven, hilar appendix moderately prominent; basidia (46-)52-79(-90) × 9.5-13 µm, mean 67.6 × 10.8 µm, 4-spored, clamps absent; sterigmata up to 7 µm long, conical and straight to slightly curved; trama composed of thin-walled, cylindrical to inflated, septate hyphae 5-15 µm diam., clamps absent; ampulliform septa present, 8-15 µm diam., stalactitic ornamentation sometimes present or only where the next hyphal segment is attached; gleoplerous hyphae frequent, often consisting of long refractive hyphae with a swollen ending suggestive of an ampulliform septum about to form. |
| Remarks: | sect. Luteae |
| Date entered: | 08/10/2009 09:26:20 |
| Date of release: | 24/11/2009 09:51:30 |
| Entered by: | Dr. Anthony Young
Qld Herbarium, Australia |
| Additional info supplied by: | Dr. Anthony Young, Qld Herbarium, Australia |
| Herbarium number: | PERTH 06436536 |
| Collected by: | R.M.Robinson, R.H.Smith & K.Pearce, 30 Jun. 2003 |
| Substrate: | on soil amongst deep litter |
| Location: | Western Australia, Edward Forest Block |
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