Phaeoclavulina curta

A small-sized coral fungus (formerly Ramaria) associated with conifers, especially pines, with coralloid basidiomata 2.5 to 3.5 cm high, cream-coloured, bruising brownish upon handling, without distinctive odour or taste.

Hyphal system monomitic; contextual/tramal hyphae hyaline, 3 to 8 µm wide, septate with clamp connections.

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Basidia cylindrical-clavate, 30 to 40 µm long, 5 to 7 µm wide, clamped at the base, 4-spored.

Spores ellipsoidal to amygdaliform, with a pointed apicular end, slightly thick-walled and verrucose, small, 4.5 to 6 µm long, 2.5 to 3.5 µm wide, with warts cyanophilic in cotton blue, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.