(In general shape and colour, this taxon resembles Clavaria rubicundula from North America, which produces fascicles of simple clubs. In C. roseo-violacea, however, fruit bodies are not truly fasciculate, but densely cespitose, and do not originate below the substrate level as do those of C. rubicundula, but from mycelial patches on the substrate surface. Finally, C. rubicundula belongs in subg. Clavaria. Previously, I reported on the type specimen of Clavaria miltina Berk. (Petersen 1967b), to which C. roseo-violacea could be compared. Because material of that type was so poor,, I decided to discard the epithet as a nomen dubium. Moreover, my observations indicated that tramal hyphae were clamped, so that taxon was removed from subg. Holocoryne, if not from Clavaria. Fruit body colour is very suggestive of descriptions of Clavaria incarnata of the North Temperate Zone, That species concept differs from C. roseo-violacea in producing elongate spores (6-10 x 3.5-6.5 µm) and solitary to scattered fruit bodies.) In general shape and colour, this taxon resembles Clavaria rubicundula from North America, which produces fascicles of simple clubs. In C. roseo-violacea, however, fruit bodies are not truly fasciculate, but densely cespitose, and do not originate below the substrate level as do those of C. rubicundula, but from mycelial patches on the substrate surface. Finally, C. rubicundula belongs in subg. Clavaria. Previously, I reported on the type specimen of Clavaria miltina Berk. (Petersen 1967b), to which C. roseo-violacea could be compared. Because material of that type was so poor,, I decided to discard the epithet as a nomen dubium. Moreover, my observations indicated that tramal hyphae were clamped, so that taxon was removed from subg. Holocoryne, if not from Clavaria. Fruit body colour is very suggestive of descriptions of Clavaria incarnata of the North Temperate Zone, That species concept differs from C. roseo-violacea in producing elongate spores (6-10 x 3.5-6.5 µm) and solitary to scattered fruit bodies.
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