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CLAVARIACE^: 



Typhula 



XCV. TYPHULA Fr. 



(From a fancied resemblance in some of the species to a 

 minute Typha or reed-mace.) 



Small thread-like fungi with a long or short filiform-stem, 

 heterogeneous from the linear or slightly inflated club, often 

 springing from a small sclerotium. Hymenium waxy. (Fig. no.) 



Fig. no. A, Typhnla phacorrhiza Fr., one- half natural (size. 

 B, T. gracillima White, one-half natural size, c, basidium and 

 spores of T. gracilis Berk. & Desm. ; D, ditto of T. erythropus Fr. ; 

 X 500. 



Growing on twigs, leaves, etc., rarely terrestrial, but the sclerotia 

 will readily grow in earth if planted. Species 1985 1995 



a. Phacorrhizce. Springing from a sclerotium. 1985 1989 



b. Leptorrhiza. Sclerotium absent. 1990 1995 



The characters as given by Fries are far from permanent ; all 

 the species of Typhula may grow with or without a sclerotium. A 

 sclerotium sometimes occurs in the allied genera, Clavaria and 

 Pistillaria. 



a. Phacorrhiza. 



1985. T. erythropus Fr. (from the red stem; Gr. enithros, red, 



poiis, a foot) a b c. 



Cl. linear or nearly so, cylindrical, smooth, white. St. elongate, 

 filiform, usually bent or variously twisted, finely pubescent 

 under a lens, crimson-brown. Scl. -^ in. or less, depressed, 



