Clavaria fragilis group (Brittle Club)


These are tall, simple clubs which usually grow in dense clusters, often caespitose (with all the clubs joined together at the base),  white, very brittle.

▪ Size to 100 mm tall x 4 mm thick.
▪ Club simple, white, smooth. 
▪ Club tip rounded, not acute or crested, white, becoming pointed and yellow to 
brown with age.
▪ Stem merges smoothly into the club, white.
▪ Spore print white.


Note – the group consists of a number of similar white clubs including C. acuta and C. alboglobospora that can only be securely separated on microscopic grounds. 

Habit: dense clusters, caespitose. 

Habitat: on the ground in eucalypt forests

Ref:- A LITTLE BOOK OF CORALS by Pat and Ed Grey P12


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