#377

Growing gregariously among open moss bed on mixed oak woodland edge.

• Stroma black, club shaped, covered in perithecia at the top with a tapered non fertile portion extending into the ground.
• Rhizomorphs underground goldish in color, connecting to an ornamented species of Elaphomyces.

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Growing by itself from moss-covered compacted soil in open mixed oak woodland edge.

Golden rhizomorphs attached to host Elaphomyces species (roughly 6 cm depth).

• Nearby trees Northern Red Oak, Eastern Red Cedar, Black Oak, Roughleaf dogwood, and distant Chinkapin Oak.
• Spore-bearing surface present.