Ramaria junquilleovertex
R.H. Petersen 1988
Description:
A pale, slender coral fungus with white to cream branches and bright yellow young apices, fading with age. Stipe clean, white, and substrate‑free, with only faint brunnescence on old bruises.

Fruitbody: Slender to moderately robust, to 70 × 50 mm, repeatedly branched, overall narrowly to broadly obtriangular in profile. Stipe single, to 20 × 15 mm, fleshy, more or less cylindrical, rounded at the base, clean and easily detached, carrying almost no substrate. Surface smooth to glabrous, white throughout, sometimes showing watery brunnescence on old bruises; flesh dry.
Branches: Major branches 2–4, to 6 mm thick, erect to stiffly ascending, white when young, very slowly ageing to cream; terete. Secondary branches similar; internodes gradually diminishing; axils rounded.
Apices: Light bright yellow when young, fading to pallid cream with age; shape short‑conical to truncate‑cuspidate.
Odour/taste: none; taste not recorded.

Common name: None
Habitat: Nothofagus and Myrtaceae forests.
Substrate: Soil
Distribution: New Zealand
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Tan
Macro images:
Ramaria junquilleo-vertex
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Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria junquilleo-vertex
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Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria junquilleo-vertex
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Scale= 10 mm.
 
Ramaria junquilleo-vertex
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Scale= 5.5 mm.
Young fruiting body showing the yellow tips to the branches which fade with age.
Ramaria junquilleo-vertex
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PDD 93267    Scale= 10 mm.
 
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