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| Figure 1. Close up of Ramaria myceliosa. |
Name: Ramaria myceliosa
Family: Gomphaceae
Collection Date: September 13, 2011
Habitat: On wet, soggy dirt with some large wood chunks scattered about. Underneath a large tree.
Location: South Chagrin Reservation in Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Description: Fruiting body abruptly and profusely branched from a slender base (stalk); 2-6 cm high and broad. Branches slender, spreading, pliant, yellowish to tan, ochraceous, olive-ochre, cinnamon-buff, or dull orange, etc.; tips same color. Stalk slender, pliant, not very fleshy; same color as branches or paler, with abundant white mycelial threads (rhizomorphs) attached to base and/or permeating the surrounding humus. Flesh thin, whitish, pliant; taste usually bitter (Arora, 1979).
Collector: Cara Tompot
Key Used: Arora, D. (1979). Mushrooms Demystified. Berkeley, CA: Ten Speed Press.
Keying Steps:
Key to the Major Groups of Fleshy Fungi
Basidiomycetes Pg 52.
Fruiting body erect, unbranched (club-like) or profusely branched from a common base or “trunk” (coral-like); cap absent; spores borne on the smooth to slightly wrinkled surfaces of the upright clubs or branches. Coral and Club Fungi p. 630.
Key to Clavariaceae:
1b. Fruiting body profusely branched from a stalk or common base.
4b.Not as above- (above: fruiting body small and tough with very thin, almost hairlike branches, brown to grayish-brown to dark brown or purple-brown; growing on twigs, needles etc.; rare (mostly tropical.)); common.
5b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body consisting of numerous flattened, wavy, ribbonlike, or leafy segments or lobes arising from a common base; rather tough; overall color white to creamy yellowish, or tan; growing at or near the bases of trees and stumps.)
7b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body bright yellow to orange; spore print white, or if not then branches usually viscid; spores smooth; typically growing on wood.)
8b. Not as above- (above: branch tips crownlike (in the form of small fringed cups); spore print white; growing on wood.)
9b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body bright yellow to orange when fresh and small (typically 2-1 cm high.))
11b. Not as above- (above: branches tough, usually flattened, grayish-brown to dark brown to purple-brown (but tips often pallid when growing); odor typically garliclike or fetid.)
12a. Spore print creamy to yellow, tan, yellow-orange, or ochraceous (rarely white); fruiting body medium-sized to fairly large, often brightly colored, or if dull colored then usually with a large fleshy base (stalk). Ramaria. P. 645
Key to Ramaria:
1b. Growing on ground (or occasionally on very rotten wood.)
5a. Fruting body pliant and rather tough, small or medium-sized (rarely taller than 10 cm); stalk or “trunk” slender to practically absent, with a mat of conspicuous white mycelial threads attached to the base and/or permeating the substrate.
6b. Fruiting body pallid to yellowish, ochraceous, cinnamon-tan, etc.; sometimes with greenish stains, found in duff.
7b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body (or at least lower branches) bruising or aging blue-green to olive-green, especially in cold weather.) Ramaria myceliosa. P. 649.
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| Figure 2. Ramaria myceliosa in its original habitat. Near twigs on ground. |
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| Figure 3. Ramaria myceliosa. |
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| Figure 4. Note the height of the Ramaria myceliosa fruiting body is around 3 cm. |
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