Appearance
Trichoglossum hirsutum makes a black club shaped fungus 3 – 8 cm high.The spores are produced on the enlarged upper part, which is 5 to 8 mm wide, up to 2 cm high, flattened, spearhead-shaped to ellipsoid and finely velvety.
The flesh is thin, tough and brownish. The stem is up to 6 cm long and 2 – 3 mm thick, cylindrical and velvety. Spores 80 - 195 x 5 - 7 micrometers, cylindric-clavate, broadest in the middle and tapering to the blunt ends, with 15 septa. The asci each have 8 spores. The paraphyses are brown, cylindric and coiled at the tips.
Naming
Trichoglossum walteri is similar but has spores 50 - 115 micrometers, with 7 divisions.References:
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