Ramaria calvodistalis R. H. Petersen 2014

1) Member of Ramaria subg. Laeticolora; 2) clamp connections absent from all tissues; 3) acanthodendroid hyphae absent; 4) stipe small, pruinose, white, without color change where handled or rubbed; 5) branches and apices yellow; 6) type locality northern Arkansas; 7) ITS sequence unique in the subgenus; (GenBank accession KJ416132). Adult basidiomata (Fig. 6) –15 × 12 cm, repeatedly branched, coralloid; young basidioma with discrete base, white, hardly canescent or pruinose; adult basidiome base falsely fasciculate (i.e. discrete but with narrow grooves and crevices giving the appearance of several stipes strongly compressed), snow white, finely canescent where free of soil particles; abortive branchlets common, white; stipe flesh white, solid, firm, gelatinous only in areas of degeneration or maggot-infestation, without brown bands or patches; lower branches “orange buff” (5A5), upward becoming “warm buff” (5A4) to “antimony yellow” (4B6); apices rounded, concolorous. Odor none. Taste none; consistency mealy. No bruising reactions on surface or flesh.

United States, Arkansas, Baxter Co., vic. Big Flat, Rte 341, Moccasin Creek Trailhead, Ozark National Forest, 36°02'N, 92°21'W, 24.X.2013, coll. RHP, TFB 14431 (TENN 69095).