;"Ramaria abietina";"R. subaurantiaca";"R. stricta";"R. flava";"R. flaccida";"R. flavescens";"R. apiculata";"R. formosa";"R. barenthalensis" Basidiomata;"Basidiomata up to 12 cm high, 4.5–8 cm in width, erect, branched, tips pointed with glabrous surface.";"Basidiomata have densely crowded branches and sometimes with a fused base. Orange to brownish.";"Mature Fruit bodies branched, 4–12 cm high, 4–8 cm wide. Branches with tapered and pointed ends, mostly erect and slender.";"Basidiomata 10.5–20 cm in length with a width of 7–15 cm having numerous densely crowded branches.";"Mycelium, multi branched, slender and less or more week.";"Basidiomata branched and large up to 18.8 cm; clamps are present.";"Basidiomata much branched 4–9 cm tall, fan shaped, rounded, tips.";"Basidiomata up to 20 cm high and multi branched mycelium.";"5–12 cm high, 4–9 cm wide with a well-developed branched mycelium, Vertically oriented, furcated, elongated to flattened, smooth." Color;"Light pink to pinkish buff, pale yellow to light brown tips, darkened when bruised.";"A persistent light brown to light yellow color from early stage of development to final stage of maturity.";"Surface glabrous, pinkish-buff, tips of branches pale-yellow, buff brown when bruised.";"Brown to light yellow more dark to ochraceous with age.";"tips of branches tan to gold, no color change on bruising.";"Branches yellowish-brown when young, pale to pinkish brown at maturity.";"Branches Brown-light to yellow brown.";"Branches Light brown. The flesh is white to yellowish.";"Light brown when young and dark brown at maturity. Clamp connections present." odor;"Slightly aromatic and bitter";;Aromatic;Pleasant;Pleasant;"Not known";"Not known";Pleasant;Distinctive Stipe;"Sometime less developed and reduced. Up to 1–2 cm in length, 0.5–1.5 cm wide, color changes to light-brown on bruising.";"1–2.5 cm in length, 0.5–1.5 cm in width, sometimes absent. When present, pallid and tomentose with a tough context, light-brown on bruising.";"Reduced and sometime developed up to 2 cm, flesh whitish to light brown.";"Stipe, 50–80 mm long with a width of 40–50 mm. Base of stipe, whitish, pale-yellow to reddish brown on bruising.";"Medium stipe 1.5–2 cm high and whitish.";"Stipe large, 2.5–6.6 cm with a width of 1.5 2 cm, whitish.";"Stipe large, 1.5–4 cm with a width of 1–1.5 cm, whitish.";"Stipe large, 2–4.5 cm with a width of 1.5–18 cm, light brown-whitish.";"Stipe variable in length and width, sometimes reduced to well-developed. Flesh whitish to brown." Spores;"6.5–9.5 µm in diameter, ellipsoidal, slightly warted.";"Spores 7–8.5 µm, ellipsoidal.";"Elliptical, rough, rusty-yellowish 7.5–10.5 × 3.5–4.5 µm, clamp connections present.";"pale elliptical and roughened, 10.5–17.5 × 4–6.5 µm.";"Pale elliptical less to more roughened, 9–14.5 × 3–4.5 µm.";"Thick walled, minute and rough outer surface, cyanophilous warts, ellipsoidal, tips squared, 7–10×3.5–5 µm.";"less to more roughened, with cyanophilous warts; ellipsoidal with a squared tip; 7–10×4–5 µm.";"slightly roughened, with cyanophilous warts; ellipsoidal and squared tip; 7.5–9×3–3.5 µm.";"6.5–9 × 3–4.6 µm, elliptical to ovoid, roughened." Edibility;Edible;Edible;"Edible on choice";Edible;"Edible on choice sometimes laxative";Edible;"Not known";"Not known";"Edible when young" Taste;Pleasant;"Taste mild to pleasant";bitter;"Taste mild to pleasant";Pleasant;Pleasant;"Taste mild to pleasant";Bitter/mild;Pleasant Ecology;"Solitary and gregarious, on hardwood and tree trunks of conifers.";"Solitary and in small groups on hardwood and logs, soil and decomposed organic matter.";"Growing in groups, under conifers and mixed vegetation, on dead wood and on ground.";"Solitary and gregarious. Fruiting season varies from late summer to autumn.";"Grow on the ground. In mixed forest and hardwoods. Late autumn.";"Solitary to gregarious, on decomposed hardwood in association with rotten conifer needles.";"Gregarious, on soil with decomposed organic matter and conifer needles.";"Gregarious, on soil with decomposed organic matter and conifer needles.";"Gregarious and sometime alone, on fallen tree turns of coniferous and other mixed vegetation during late summer." References;"(Petersen 1969; Sultan et al. 1997)";"(Petersen 1989; Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Petersen and Olexia 1967; Petersen 1969; Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Petersen 1969; Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Ahmad et al. 1997)";"(Kuo 2005)";"Present study" "Basidiomata of different species of Ramaria";;;;;;;;; "Ramaria abietina";"R. subaurantiaca";"R. stricta";"R. flava";"R. flaccida";"R. flavescens";"R. apiculata";"R. formosa";"R. barenthalensis"