[3] The species name vinaceocervina is a combination of "vinaceo", from the Latin word which means wine-coloured[4] and "cervina" from the Latin word which means of or pertaining to a deer.

[5] It was originally described and classified as Clavaria vinaceo-cervina by Australian mycologist John Burton Cleland in 1931 and was reclassified as a species of Clavulina in 1950 by E. J. H.

[2] Clavulina vinaceocervina contains the following varieties: Clavulina vinaceocervina is around 5 centimetres (2.0 in) high, with a short trunk with irregular branches that have prong-like divisions divided into a number of small branchlets.

[2] The branchlets are short, prong-like, and blunt, sometimes acute, thornlike, or digitate.

[6] Clavulina vinaceocervina can be found on the ground under trees in Southern Australia.