Yew Club
Clavicorona taxophila
Fruiting body:
0.3-0.6cm wide at tip, 0.1-0.2cm wide at base, 0.5-3cm high, clavate [club-shaped] when young, becoming obconic or trumpet-shaped with wide, cup-like apex; white when fresh, becoming "yellowish white" on drying and finally strong "orange yellow" ("ochraceous-orange"); smooth, (Dodd), 0.8-3cm high, mostly 1.4-1.8cm high, stemmed with an elongate obconic truncate head, 0.4-0.9cm wide at the sterile, flat, or slightly concave top; white becoming ochraceous when old and even orange upward, paler in lower part; "margin of the head thin, upturned or expanded, even deflexed and almost involute at times, wavy or lobed, or with incipient pyxidate branching"; hymenium covering the sides of the head, smooth or becoming vaguely longitudinally rugulose [wrinkled] especially when dry, (Corner), translucent (Doty)
Flesh:
white (Dodd), waxy, very soft, hygrophanous, (Corner)
Stem:
basal mat effuse [spread out flat], strigose, white, (Dodd), stem 0.05-0.1cm wide, solid, cylindric, slightly dilating into the head; white pruinose, with scattered white hairs at the base, (Corner)
0.3-0.6cm wide at tip, 0.1-0.2cm wide at base, 0.5-3cm high, clavate [club-shaped] when young, becoming obconic or trumpet-shaped with wide, cup-like apex; white when fresh, becoming "yellowish white" on drying and finally strong "orange yellow" ("ochraceous-orange"); smooth, (Dodd), 0.8-3cm high, mostly 1.4-1.8cm high, stemmed with an elongate obconic truncate head, 0.4-0.9cm wide at the sterile, flat, or slightly concave top; white becoming ochraceous when old and even orange upward, paler in lower part; "margin of the head thin, upturned or expanded, even deflexed and almost involute at times, wavy or lobed, or with incipient pyxidate branching"; hymenium covering the sides of the head, smooth or becoming vaguely longitudinally rugulose [wrinkled] especially when dry, (Corner), translucent (Doty)
Flesh:
white (Dodd), waxy, very soft, hygrophanous, (Corner)
Stem:
basal mat effuse [spread out flat], strigose, white, (Dodd), stem 0.05-0.1cm wide, solid, cylindric, slightly dilating into the head; white pruinose, with scattered white hairs at the base, (Corner)