One of the most common species found under beech, even so, it's yet another species that requires a new name due to more recent sequencing indicating it's a similar species to the true Ramaria piedmontiana from America.
A narrowly obpyramidal apricot‑salmon coral fungus with long dichotomous apices, a grooved white stipe, and flesh more vivid than the surface.
Fruitbody: To 80 x 35 m m, narrowly obpyramidal, repeatedly branched. Often forming small tufts.
Stipe:To 35 x 18 mm, single, grooved or lobed in cross‑section, giving a false fasciculate appearance. White where protected, covered with a very thin white plush easily rubbed off; watery‑brunnescent when bruised.
Branches : Several, arising gradually from the stipe, ascending, terete. Axils very narrowly pointed; internodes rather uniformly long. Branches and apices apricot-salmon, with the flesh more vivid than the surface. Dirt specks very weakly vinoscent.
Apices:
Long, stout, often dichotomous within 3-4 mm of the tip.
Odour/taste: Not recorded.
Common name: None
Habitat: Nothofagus Forests
Substrate: Ectomycorrhizal on soil
Distribution:
New Zealand
Season: Autumn to early winter
Biostatus: Endemic to New Zealand
Edible: No
Spore print: Tan