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Multiclavula R.H.Petersen

MULTICLAVULA R.H.Petersen, 1967

Type : Multiclavula mucida (Pers:Fr.) Petersen [=Clavaria mucida Pers.]

Description : Flora (1985: 295–296).

Key

1
Fruiting bodies produced on wood (rarely on rock)
2
Fruiting bodies on soil with algae, simple, white; sterigmata 6–8
coronilla
2
Fruiting bodies simple to once-branched, creamish
mucida
Fruiting bodies often lacerate or lobed, pale-yellowish to pinkish ochre
corynoides

Multiclavula, a genus of c. 15 species in the family Clavariaceae (Kirk et al. 2001), is a basidiolichen associated with green algae, cyanobacteria, mosses or slime moulds on soil or rotting wood (Petersen 1967, 1988; Petersen & Kantvilas 1986; Poelt & Obermayer 1990). Three lichenised species are known from New Zealand (Galloway 1985a: 295–297; Petersen 1988) where they occur either on soil, rock or on rotting wood in Nothofagus forest mainly E of the Main Divide in South I., but also in some North I. forests. The genus is still very poorly understood and collected in New Zealand.

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