Phaeoclavulina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Basidiomycota |
Class: | Agaricomycetes |
Order: | Gomphales |
Family: | Gomphaceae |
Genus: |
Phaeoclavulina Brinkmann (1897) |
Type species | |
Phaeoclavulina macrospora Brinkmann (1897) |
The genus Phaeoclavulina comprises approximately 42 species of coral fungi.
Basidiocarps may range in color from bright yellow, to ochre, orange or shades of tan.
The spores of Phaeoclavulina species are ochre-brown in mass deposit and are echinulate.
As of January 2016[update], Index Fungorum accepts 13 species of Phaeoclavulina: