MycoKey : the genus Clavaria

Generic short diagnoses: Fragile, simple to rarely branched, dull or brightly coloured, soil-inhabiting, clavarioids with a range of spore shapes and ornamentations; generative hyphae inflated, cystidia may be present.


Species example:


Clavaria zollingeri - DK: purpur-køllesvamp UK: Violet Coral
Photo and © Jan Vesterholt
Denmark, JV02-080

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