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| Figure 1. Clavulinopsis laeticolor. |
Name: Clavulinopsis laeticolor
Family: Clavulinaceae
Collection Date: September 13, 2011
Habitat: On wet, soggy dirt with some twigs scattered around. Underneath a large tree.
Location: South Chagrin Reservation in Chagrin Falls, Ohio
Description: Fruiting body simple (unbranched or occasionally forked once) but often tufted; erect, small, cylindrical or often somewhat flattened, grooved, and/or twisted; 1.5-6.5 cm tall but usually 3-4 cm, 2-5 mm thick; surface bright orange or in some forms orange-red, often duller as it dries or fades; extreme base whitish; tip usually acute, often brownish in age or when dry. Flesh thin, somewhat pliant, pallid or yellowish; odor and taste mild (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:
Key to Clavulina and Allies:
1a. Fruiting body unbranched or very sparsely branched (but often tufted or clustered.)
2b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body entirely brownish-black to black or blackish beneath a white powdery coating or entirely green to olive or blue-green or interior with large chambers or compartments or parasitic on insects, spiders, or truffles; spores born asexually or in acsi); may be white, but if so then not powdery; spores born on basidia.
3b. Fruiting body typically fragile or if tough then much smaller, mostly less than 7 mm thick; apex acute or blunt or occasionally enlarged. Clavaria and Allies. P. 634.
Key to Clavaria and Allies:
1b. Not as above- (above: growing on algae-covered wood or soil; fruiting body minute (up to 1.5 cm high and 1-3 mm thick)); if growing on algae, then larger.
2a. Fresh fruiting body yellow to orange, red salmon, or pink.
3a. Fruiting body yellow to orange.
4b. Fruiting body unbranched or occasionally forked (but often clustered.)
6b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body with wide, often flattened head and/or fruiting body often irregular in shape; texture rather tough; spores borne inside asci); fruiting body typically clublike to spindle-shaped or fingerlike or rarely forked; usually rather fragile; spores borne on basidia.
7b. Fruiting bodies up to 6.5 cm high, solitary to gregarious or tufted; yellow to orange.
8b. Not as above- (above: fruiting body less than 15 mm high, usually somewhat viscid; typically growing on or near wood); usually growing on ground. Clavunlinopsis laeticolor. P. 638.
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| Figure 2. Clavulinopsis laeticolor. |
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