Clavicorona pyxidata (Pers.) Doty
Crown-tipped coral

Clavicorona from clava, club referring to the shape

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Description:
coral fungus
Fruiting Body: fruiting structure up to 12 cm high. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: basidiospores 2.3 x 4 µm, ovate, hyaline; spore print white.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: tips of branches are "crowned" with four evenly spaced projections; growth on wood

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common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on down logs, sometimes in large masses

Habitat: woodland

Fruiting Season: summer, fall

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Russulales
 

 

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