Ramaria apiculata
Biblthca Mycol. 21: 105. 1933.
Common Name: none
For description see Exeter et al. & 'California Mushrooms'.
Scattered on rotted conifer wood, often on buried woody debris, under hemlock, redwood, and spruce; fruiting from fall through mid-winter in coastal forests; uncommon, except under spruce in the far north coast.
Unknown.
Ramaria apiculata is distinguished by compact, tan to reddish gray fruitbodies, narrow, subparallel, multi-forked branches with acute tips that frequently bruise green and grows on rotted conifer wood that is often buried and moss-covered. Phaeoclavulina abietina also bruises green and grows with conifers, but it forms more open branches that are yellowish brown to olive-brown, is terrestrial in needle duff, and has smaller, more densely and coarsely warted spores. Ramaria conjunctipes var. tsugensis can also have greenish tips but is fleshier and has pinkish salmon branches with a whitish base.
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