Clavaria vermicularis Fries White spindles
Cap: absent. Fruit-body: width 6-10 mm; length 50-85 mm.
Description: [Plate 56].
Simple or very rarely branched, but not forked below the soil-level, densely tufted, spindle-shaped, pure white with sharp, often slightly brownish, tips, when old it is wavy, often twisted, compressed and fragile.
Stem: absent.
Flesh: whitish.
Spore-print: white.
Spores: small, pip-shaped, smooth, hyaline under the microscope, 4-5 × 3 µm in size, and not becoming bluish grey in iodine solutions.
Cystidia: absent.
Habitat & Distribution: Common in autumn amongst grass in fields, less frequent in woods.