Flora of New Zealand Series

≡Clavaria  mucida Pers., Comment.: 187 (1797).

≡Clavaria mucida Pers: Fr., Syst. Mycol. 1: 476 (1821).

Descriptions : Flora (1985: 296–297); Oberwinkler (2001: 217, fig. 4E).

N: Northland (Yakas Track), Auckland (Waitakere Ra.). S: Nelson (Graham River Valley, Reefton), Canterbury (Nina Valley), Otago (Rees Valley, Mt Cargill, Dunedin). On rotting logs in beech forest and northern coastal forest (Bartlett 1988: 16). Rarely on rocks in forest. Known also from Europe, Scandinavia, North America, Tibet, Japan, Tasmania (Poelt 1962, 1969; Petersen & Kantvilas 1986: 218; Santesson 1993; Esslinger & Egan 1995; Scholz 2000; Kurokawa 2003; McCarthy 2003c, 2006; Nimis & Martellos 2003; Obermayer 2004; Santesson et al. 2004).

Cosmopolitan

Illustrations : Moberg & Holmåsen (1982: 222); Petersen & Kantvilas (1986: 219, figs 1–3); Petersen (1988: 84, figs 78, 79).

Multiclavula mucida is characterised by: the corticolous/lignicolous (rarely saxicolous) habit; simple, white to greyish or tan, waxy to often slimy basidiomata; basidia short, 4–6-sterigmate; and basidiospores ovoid to ellipsoidal, without oil bodies to 1–2-guttulate, 4.5–7.5 × 1.5–3 μm.