Phaeoclavulina

Phaeoclavulina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Gomphales
Family: Gomphaceae
Genus: Phaeoclavulina
Brinkmann (1897)
Type species
Phaeoclavulina macrospora
Brinkmann (1897)

The genus Phaeoclavulina comprises approximately 42 species of coral fungi.[1]

Description

Basidiocarps may range in color from bright yellow, to ochre, orange or shades of tan.

The spores of Phaeoclavulina species are ochre-brown in mass deposit and are echinulate.

Species

As of January 2016, Index Fungorum accepts 13 species of Phaeoclavulina:[2]

  • Phaeoclavulina angustata
  • Phaeoclavulina cervicornis
  • Phaeoclavulina clavarioides
  • Phaeoclavulina cokeri
  • Phaeoclavulina decolor
  • Phaeoclavulina eumorpha
  • Phaeoclavulina grandis
  • Phaeoclavulina guadelupensis
  • Phaeoclavulina quercus-ilicis
  • Phaeoclavulina retispora
  • Phaeoclavulina sikkimia
  • Phaeoclavulina subclaviformis
  • Phaeoclavulina viridis
  • Phaeoclavulina zealandica

References

  1. ↑ "Phaeoclavulina (Peck)". Index Fungorum. Retrieved 2013-11-04.
  2. ↑ Kirk PM. "Species Fungorum (version 23rd December 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life". Retrieved 2016-01-26.
  • "Phaeoclavulina Brinkmann". Atlas of Living Australia.
  • Media related to Phaeoclavulina at Wikimedia Commons
  • Mushroom Observer "Clubs and Corals" by Michael Kuo
  • Phaeoclavulina and Ramaria (Gomphaceae, Gomphales) from Nam Nao National Park, Thailand
  • Species Fungorum - Phaeoclavulina


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