Ramaria acrisiccescens Marr & Stuntz Fruit body 5-29cm high, 1.5-18cm wide; many slender, elongated, almost parallel, numerously branching dichotomous branches with rounded tips; pale buff-yellow or buff orange, browner toward the base, paler toward the tips, which have a faint pinkish tinge. Base 15-90 x 10-30mm, often deeply buried, slender, tapered, single or in a close cluster; white when fresh, becoming darker; nonamyloid. Flesh fleshy-fibrous when fresh, becoming brittle and crumbly; brownish white. Odor faintly musty-sweet to beanlike. Taste not distinctive or slightly acid when fresh, developing a distinctly bitterish acid taste when dry. Spores subcylindric to ellipsoid, with a prominent lateral apiculus, ornamented with distinct lobed warts, 8-14 x 4-6µ. Deposit grayish yellow. No clamps present. Habitat on the ground under western hemlock. Found in the Pacific Northwest and California. Season September-November. Edibility not known avoid, many Ramarias can cause stomach upset.