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Clavulina

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{For|the Foraminifer genus|Clavulina (foram)}}

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| image = Clavulina coralloides - Lindsey.jpg

| image_caption = Clavulina coralloides

| taxon = Clavulina

| authority = J.Schröt. (1888)

| type_species = Clavulina cristata

| type_species_authority = (Holmsk.) J.Schröt. (1888)

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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.

File:Clavulina cinerea 447865875.jpg | Clavulina spores

File:Clavulina rugosa 463300472.jpg | basidia with two sterigmata

Species

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Distribution

Clavulina species are important primary colonizers of forest litter, and occur immediately after the pre-monsoon showers. Two species of Clavulina – C. coralloides (known as white or crested coral fungus) and C. rugosa – have been recorded from the moist-deciduous to evergreen forests of the Western Ghats, Kerala, India.

References

{{cite book |author=Mohanan C. |title=Macrofungi of Kerala |publisher=Kerala Forest Research Institute |location=Kerala, India |year=2011 |pages=597 |isbn=978-81-85041-73-5}}

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{{cite journal |author=Thacker J, Henkel TW. |year=2004 |title=New species of Clavulina from Guyana |journal=Mycologia |volume=96 |issue=3 |pages=650–7 |url=http://www.cybertruffle.org.uk/cyberliber/59350/0096/003/0650.htm |doi=10.2307/3762182 |jstor=3762182 |pmid=21148885|url-access=subscription }}

{{cite journal |author=Uehling JK, Henkel TW. |title=New species of Clavulina (Cantharellales, Basidiomycota) with resupinate and effused basidiomata from the Guiana Shield |journal=Mycologia |year=2012 |volume=104 |issue=2 |pages=547–56 |doi=10.3852/11-130 |pmid=22067306}}

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Category:Agaricomycetes genera

Category:Taxa named by Joseph Schröter

Category:Taxa described in 1888

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