Clavariaceae

Camarophyllopsis Ceratellopsis Clavaria Clavicorona Clavulinopsis Hirticlavula Hodophilus Hyphodontiella Lamelloclavaria Mucronella Ramariopsis The Clavariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales.

Basidiocarps are variously clavarioid or agaricoid (mushroom-shaped), less commonly corticioid (effused, crust-like) or hydnoid (with pendant spines).

[1] It was one of five families (along with the Agaricaceae, Hydnaceae, Polyporaceae, and Thelephoraceae) that Elias Fries used to divide the Agaricales and Aphyllophorales in his influential work Systema Mycologicum.

[2] Corner published his world monograph in 1950 (revised in 1967 and updated in 1970), introducing modern concepts of many genera of clavarioid fungi.

[3] Molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has confirmed Corner's concept of the Clavariaceae, but has extended it to include agarics (gilled mushrooms) in the genera Camarophyllopsis,[5] Hodophilus,[6] and Lamelloclavaria.