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Clavulina
Clavulina is a genus of fungus in the family Clavulinaceae, in the Cantharelloid clade (order Cantharellales). Species are characterized by having extensively branched fruit bodies, white spore prints, and bisterigmate basidia (often with secondary septation). Branches are cylindrical or flattened, blunt, and pointed or crested at the apex, hyphae with or without clamps, basidia cylindrical to narrowly clavate, mostly with two sterigmata which are large and strongly incurved and spores subspherical or broadly ellipsoid, smooth, and thin-walled, each with one large oil drop or guttule. The genus contains approximately forty-five species with a worldwide distribution, primarily in tropical regions.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

White Coral Fungus
speciesClavulina coralloides

wrinkled club fungus
speciesClavulina rugosa

grey coral fungus
speciesClavulina cinerea

Clavulina subrugosa
speciesClavulina subrugosa

dark-tipped coral
speciesClavulina vinaceocervina

Clavulina castaneipes
speciesClavulina castaneipes

Clavulina sp. 'coralloides-PNW01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'coralloides-PNW01'

Clavulina tasmanica
speciesClavulina tasmanica

Clavulina sp. 'cinerea-PNW02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'cinerea-PNW02'

Clavulina sp. 'IN04'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN04'

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-PNW03'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-PNW03'

Clavulina reae
speciesClavulina reae

Clavulina floridana
speciesClavulina floridana

Clavulina iris
speciesClavulina iris

Clavulina zealandica
speciesClavulina zealandica

Clavulina ornatipes
speciesClavulina ornatipes

Clavulina sp. 'IN05'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN05'

Clavulina sp. 'TN01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'TN01'

Clavulina mahiscolorata
speciesClavulina mahiscolorata

Clavulina sp. 'IN06'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN06'

Clavulina sp. 'reae-PNW06'
speciesClavulina sp. 'reae-PNW06'

Clavulina chengdeensis
speciesClavulina chengdeensis

Clavulina amethystina
speciesClavulina amethystina

Clavulina sp. 'IN01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN01'

Clavulina sp. 'IN02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN02'

Clavulina craterelloides
speciesClavulina craterelloides

Clavulina amethystinoides
speciesClavulina amethystinoides

Clavulina sp. 'IN03'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN03'

Clavulina sphaeropedunculata
speciesClavulina sphaeropedunculata

Clavulina sp. 'QC01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'QC01'

Clavulina sp. 'truffle-PR01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'truffle-PR01'

Clavulina connata
speciesClavulina connata

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-CA02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-CA02'

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-TN01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-TN01'

Clavulina incarnata
speciesClavulina incarnata

Clavulina sp. 'CO01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'CO01'

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-CA01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-CA01'

Clavulina tepurumenga
speciesClavulina tepurumenga

Clavulina amazonensis
speciesClavulina amazonensis

Clavulina sp. 'IN08'
speciesClavulina sp. 'IN08'

Clavulina sp. 'CA01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'CA01'

Clavulina ramarioides
speciesClavulina ramarioides

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-NY01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-NY01'

Clavulina etruriae
speciesClavulina etruriae

Clavulina sp. 'CO02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'CO02'

Clavulina leveillei
speciesClavulina leveillei

Clavulina sp. 'coralloides-MI01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'coralloides-MI01'
Clavulina alutaceosiccescens
speciesClavulina alutaceosiccescens

Clavulina kunmudlutsa
speciesClavulina kunmudlutsa

Clavulina sp. 'PNW10'
speciesClavulina sp. 'PNW10'
Clavulina sp. 'PR05'
speciesClavulina sp. 'PR05'
Clavulina sp. 'PR02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'PR02'

Clavulina sp. 'AL01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'AL01'

Clavulina brunneocinerea
speciesClavulina brunneocinerea

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-PNW07'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-PNW07'

Clavulina sp. 'FL02'
speciesClavulina sp. 'FL02'

Clavulina sp. 'rugosa-IL01'
speciesClavulina sp. 'rugosa-IL01'

Clavulina samuelsii
speciesClavulina samuelsii
Clavulina septocystidiata
speciesClavulina septocystidiata

Clavulina nigricans
speciesClavulina nigricans
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 63266.