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CLAVARIACEAE. 
RoceptficlG erect, dendroid, coralloid, simple or branched, never pileate. 
Hynienium moie or less ampliigenous. 
CLAVARIA (Vaill.) Fr. 
(L., clava, a club.) 
Receptacle fleshy or subooi'iaceous, ei'ect, branched or simple and elavate, 
smooth or longitudinally striate. Hynienium even, ampliigenous, absent in tin. 
stem-like portion of the simple clubs. Spores white or ochraceous, rarely reddish 
ochre or brownish ; elliptical, globose, subglobose, oboval, piji-shaped, pyriform, 
almond-shaped, reniform, oblong, oblong elliptical or subfusiform; smooth, 
})unctate or verrucose; basidia with 2-4 sterigmata. Cystidia none. Putrescent. 
Growing on the ground or on wood; solitary, gregarious, caespitose or caespitose- 
(ionnate. ’ ’ — Rea. 
The genus comprises the fleshy Coral Fungi which may be simple club-shaped 
structures sometimes hollow and sometimes delicate, or sparingly branched in a 
regular or irregular manner, or antler-like in the branching, or repeatedly and 
densely branched to form coi'al-like masses oi' even to resemble a caulifloyver. 
Some of the species are lichly coloured in yellow, orange or buff. 
KEY TO THE SPECIES. 
Plants branched. 
"When mature more or less yellowish, buff, ))inkish 
oinnamon or vinaceous buff. Spores mostly 
ochraceous. 
Large, up to 5 to 10 cm. high. Base thick, 
of a single or of compacte<l stems. 
Mustard yellow. Base of compacted 
stems. Ends of branches with blunt 
prongs. Spores 5.5 to 8 x 4 to 5 . . 422. C. sinapicolor. 
Ochraceous salmon to ochraceous buff or 
capucine orange to orange buff. 
Cauliflower-like. Spores usually 9 to 
fO X 4 /i 423. C. ochraceo- 
sahnonicolor. 
Vinaceous pink, vinaceous russet, vina- 
ceous fawn or pinkish cinnamon. Spores 
n to l(i X 3.5 to 5.5 p. 424. C. australiana. 
Pinkish tussore to brownish salmon. The 
slender primary branches becoming 
flattened, ending in slender processes. 
Spores subspherical, 5.2 to 7 /t . . . . 425, C. complanata. 
Medium sized, under 5 cm. 
Pale ochraceous buff, tough but flaccid. 
Stem short, branches crowded, erect. 
Spores 5.5 to 7.5 x 3.7 p.. Under 
conifers 420. C. flacoida. 
Ochraceous biiff. Stem slender, to lin., 
with white mycelium. Spores slightly 
irregular, 5.5 x 3.5 p. Under pines . . 427. C. graoiUs. 
Vinaceous fawn, vinaceous buff to pinkish 
cinnamon, i to 2in. Branches few or 
numerous, very irregular. Spores sub- 
spherical, 7 to 10 428. C. vinaceo-cervina. 
Small. 
Delicate. Capucine yellow to chrome. 
Dichotomously forking 2 to 4 times. 
Spores sliglitly irregular, 4 x 3.5 p . . 429. C. crocea. 
Plants variously coloured, spores hyaline. 
Whitish, very variable, small. Branches 
irregular, few or many, ends often cristate. 
Spores subspherical, 9 x 7.5 p 430. C.lcrlsiata. 
Drab (greyish), 14 to 3in., simple to densely 
branched. Spores spherical, 8 to 9 y, . . 431. C. cinerea (see 
C. vinaceo-cervina). 
