Figure 1: Ramaria fennica on soil at Chagrin Reservation
Name: Ramaria fennica
Family: Clavariaceae
Collection Date: September 12, 2011
Habitat: Shaded woods on damp ground, near tree
Location: South Chagrin Reservation
Description: Profusely branching tan coral fungus, somewhat medium sized, thick, and tough. Slight violet tinge at base.
Collector: Taylor Summerfield
Key used: Arora, David, 1986. Mushrooms Demystified, 2nd Edition, Ten Speed Press, New York, New York.
Key Steps: Key to the Major Groups of Fleshy Fungi
1. Spores produced on mother cells called basidia; fruiting body variously shaped (see pp.52-54)
...p.53; Fruiting body erect, unbranched (clublike) 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, p. 630:
1. Fruiting body profusely branched from a stalk or common base...4
4. Common; fruiting body not 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)...5
5. Fruiting body not 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 near or at the bases of trees and stumps...7
7. Fruiting body not bright yellow to orange; spore print white or if not then branches usually viscid; spores smooth; typically growing on wood...8
8. Branch tips not crownlike (in the form of small fringed cups); spore print white; growing on wood...9
9. Fruiting body not bright yellow to orange when fresh and small (typically 2-7cm high)...11
11. Branches not tough, usually flattened, grayish-brown to dark brown to purple-brown (but tips often pallid when growing); odor typically garliclike or fetid...12
12. 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); fertile surfaces staining greenish to blue in ferrous sulfate...Ramaria, p.645
Family: Clavariaceae
Collection Date: September 12, 2011
Habitat: Shaded woods on damp ground, near tree
Location: South Chagrin Reservation
Description: Profusely branching tan coral fungus, somewhat medium sized, thick, and tough. Slight violet tinge at base.
Collector: Taylor Summerfield
Key used: Arora, David, 1986. Mushrooms Demystified, 2nd Edition, Ten Speed Press, New York, New York.
Key Steps: Key to the Major Groups of Fleshy Fungi
1. Spores produced on mother cells called basidia; fruiting body variously shaped (see pp.52-54)
...p.53; Fruiting body erect, unbranched (clublike) 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, p. 630:
1. Fruiting body profusely branched from a stalk or common base...4
4. Common; fruiting body not 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)...5
5. Fruiting body not 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 near or at the bases of trees and stumps...7
7. Fruiting body not bright yellow to orange; spore print white or if not then branches usually viscid; spores smooth; typically growing on wood...8
8. Branch tips not crownlike (in the form of small fringed cups); spore print white; growing on wood...9
9. Fruiting body not bright yellow to orange when fresh and small (typically 2-7cm high)...11
11. Branches not tough, usually flattened, grayish-brown to dark brown to purple-brown (but tips often pallid when growing); odor typically garliclike or fetid...12
12. 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); fertile surfaces staining greenish to blue in ferrous sulfate...Ramaria, p.645
Key to Ramaria, p. 646:
1. growing on ground (or occasionally on very rotten wood)...5
5. Fruiting body medium-sized to large; mycelial mat absent, or if present then not as above (sometimes tough and pliant but usually fleshier)...8
8. Flesh in base of stalk not rusty to rusty-brown when cut open lengthwise...11
11. Branches darker or more bightly colored when young and fresh or tips yellow or flesh gelatinous or semi-gelatinous...12
12. Odor not fragrant, like cocoa butter...13
13. Branches dingy-colored (yellow-brown to olive-brown or olive-gray, etc.) with a distinct violet tinge to lowermost ones (when fresh) and/or upper stalk; base (stalk) usually well-developed and fleshy...R. fennica, p. 650
Links:
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/ramaria_fennica.html
http://www.mycobank.org/MycoTaxo.aspx?Link=T&Rec=356844
http://mushroomobserver.org/15546
http://www.mycokey.com/MycoKeySolidState/species/Ramaria_fennica.html
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