Clavariadelphaceae (original) (raw)

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Family of fungi

Clavariadelphaceae
Clavariadelphus ligula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Gomphales
Family: ClavariadelphaceaeCorner
Type genus
ClavariadelphusDonk
Genera
Beenakia Clavariadelphus

The Clavariadelphaceae are a family of fungi belonging in what is classically known as the Gomphales order, or cladistically as the gomphoid-phalloid clade. First described by British botanist E.J.H. Corner in 1970,[1] the family has 2 genera and 26 species.[2]

  1. ^ Corner EJH. (1970). "Supplement to 'A monograph of Clavaria and allied genera'". Beihefte zur Nova Hedwigia. 33: 6.
  2. ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.