Ramaria polypus
Corner 1950
Description:
A compact ochraceous coral fungus with smooth cylindrical branches, slow brownish bruising, and a mixed generative–skeletal hyphal system.

Fruitbody: Compact, to 60 mm high and 30 mm broad, repeatedly branched from a short, often indistinct basal mass. Overall habit stout and tufted.
Branches: Ascending to erect, cylindrical, smooth; colour pale to ochraceous, sometimes duller in age. Axils rounded. Tips short, blunt to slightly tapered. Older branches may appear powdery with spores.
Bruising: Tissues slowly stain brownish when bruised or cut.
Stipe/base: Short, poorly differentiated; may merge into a rhizomorphic or resupinate patch, though these structures are not strongly developed.
Odour/taste:
Not recorded.

Common name: None
Habitat: Lowland podocarp-broadleaf forest
Substrate: Decaying wood or course wood material
Distribution: Unknown
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Uncertain
Edible: No
Spore print: Tan
Macro images:
Ramaria polypus
Scale bar
Scale= 8.2 mm.
 
Ramaria polypus
Scale bar
Scale= 8.2 mm.
 
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