Fruiting body ochraceous tinged buff, becoming darker with age, repeatedly branching coral-line with pointed forked tips. The branches are cylindrical or laterally compressed arising from a pallid stout stem. The flesh in the stem is white, glossy, elastic and tough, and in older fruiting bodies, gelatinous. Spore print yellow or ochre.
Microscopic Features: The spores are warty, cylindrical, approximately 7.5–9 × 4–4.5 µm in size.
Similar species: The Ramaria genus comprises approximately 200 species of which many are so similar to each other that they can be distinguished only with a microscope.
Ramaria genus on Wikipedia.
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