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Clavulina rugosa

 
This small club fungus is often solitary or in small groups beside woodland footpaths. The club is laterally compressed and has very few irregularly-shaped branches. The branch tips are blunt.

Identification guide

Description

Because the stem and the fertile upper section of the fruitbody are the same colour - white or cream or occasionally light grey - there is no clear delineation between stem and fruitbody. Some examples of this fungus branch but rarely spread out significantly, and many do not branch at all.

The laterally compressed, blunt tips, which have wrinkled and uneven surfaces surfaces, are laterally compressed but not forked.

Size

The fruiting body is 5 to 12 cm tall.

Spore print

White.

Odour/taste

Not distinctive.

Habitat

Singly or in small groups on the ground beneath deciduous and coniferous trees; very often beside footpaths.

Season

August to December.

Occurrence

Fairly common.

Similar species

  1. Clavulina cinerea is a grey, branching fungus that does not have the characteristic surface wrinkles of Clavulina rugosa.
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