LICHALP

Multiclavula mucida (Pers.) R.H. Petersen

Syn.: Clavaria mucida Pers., Lentaria mucida (Pers.) Corner; incl. Lentaria mucida (Pers.) Corner var. hexaspora Geitler

Lichenised.

Substrate: lignum

Altitudinal range: from the submediterranean/colline belt (potential vegetation: mixed deciduous forests dominated by Quercus and Carpinus) to the montane belt (potential vegetation: deciduous forests dominated by Fagus sylvatica and closed coniferous forests with Picea abies)

Note: a species with white to cream-coloured, later grey carpophores, and 4-6-sterigmate basidia; on moist rotten logs in mixed forests; regarded as subcosmopolitan, in Central Europe up to the montane belt; probably still overlooked in parts of the Alps, but certainly rare.