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Basidiomata gregarious to scattered, to 100 mm tall x 40 mm wide, petite to slightly robust; branching variable, profusely branched and compact to loosely branched and open. Branches forming to 10 ranks, 5-6 per node, to 2 mm diam; almost white, "light buff" (3A2), "pale ochraceous buff" (4A2), to "lemon yellow" (2A7). Stipe often present, to 25 mm tall x 2 mm diam; basal mycelial pad pure white to rust colored. Tips cuspidate, coronate-cristate, to rarely acicular. Taste and odor mildly to strongly peppery. Dried basidiomata "pale cinnamon pink" (5A2), "cinnamon buff" (6B4), "buff brown" (6D4), "sayal brown" (6C5), "chestnut brown" (7E4), to "cinnamon rufous" (6D7).
Merisma pyxidatum
Artomyces pyxidatus