Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Clavaria corynoides Peck, Rep. N.Y. Mus. Nat. Hist. 31: 39 (1879).

Description : Flora (1985: 296).

S: Canterbury (Nina Valley). On rotting beech stumps and logs in forest litter. Known also from Europe, Scandinavia, and North America (Petersen 1967; Poelt 1969).

Cosmopolitan

Illustration : Brodo et al. (2001: 445, pl. 512).

Multiclavula corynoides is characterised by: the corticolous/lignicolous habit; the lacerate or lobed, pale-yellowish to pinkish or ochre, somewhat compressed basidiomata; short basidia, 4–5–6-sterigmate; and basidiospores smooth, thin-walled, elongate–ovoid to cylindrical, sometimes curved, weakly laterally apiculate, without oil bodies, 5.5–8 × 2–3.5 μm.