Clavariaceae
| Clavariaceae | |
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| Clavulinopsis corallinorosacea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Agaricales |
| Family: |
Clavariaceae Chevall. (1826) |
| Type genus | |
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Clavaria Vaill. ex L. (1753) |
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| Genera | |
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Camarophyllopsis |
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Camarophyllopsis
Clavaria
Clavulinopsis
Hirticlavula
Hyphodontiella
Mucronella
Ramariopsis
Scytinopogon
Setigeroclavula
The Clavariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Collectively, they are commonly known as coral fungi due to their resemblance to aquatic coral, although other vernacular names including antler fungi, finger fungi, worm mold, and spaghetti mushroom are sometimes used for similar reasons.
Clavariaceae was circumscribed (as "Clavariae") by French botanist François Fulgis Chevallier in 1826. 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. The family served as a convenient placement for all genera containing species with superficially similar coral-like fruitbodies. It was first Marinus Anton Donk and later E.J.H. Corner who realized that in this broad sense, the family was not a natural phylogenetic assemblage of related species. Corner published his world monograph in 1950 (revised in 1967 and updated in 1970), introducing the modern concepts of many genera of clavarioid fungi. Corner included three genera in his original concept of the Clavariaceae: Clavaria, Clavulinopsis, and Ramariopsis.Molecular phylogenetic analysis has since shown that the Clavariaceae belong to the order Agaricales.
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