Club and coral fungi: Gomphales,Cantharellales, Clavariaceae,

Thelephorales,

Calocera cornea - a jelly fungusPhoto from Mykoweb

Gomphales

Ramaria

Kavinia

Gomphus

Clavariadelphus

Phallus

Hysterangium

Gomphaceae

• Spores olivaceous in color, and roughened• Flesh turns green with FeCl2

• Many form mycelial mats

Genera of the Gomphaceae

• Ramaria - densely branched coral fungi, onground

• Gomphus - vase shaped with shallow gill-like ridges

• Clavariadelphus - club-shaped

Ramaria araiosporaRamariabotrytis

Ramariaconjunctipes

Ramariarasilispora

Gomphus floccosus Gomphus kaufmanii

Gomphus clavatus Clavariadelphus truncatus

Kavinia atroviridisa toothed resupinate in the Gomphales

Clavariaceaea polyphyletic group in Euagaric clade

• Clavaria - single unbranched thin clubs,without clamp connections

• Clavulinopsis - single unbranched ordichotomously branched thin clubs, withclamps

• Ramariopsis - Ramaria-like but with whitespiny spores

• Macrotyphula -thin small unbranched clubsattached to litter or wood.

Clavulinopsis

Ramariopsis kunzeiPhoto from Mykoweb

Cantharelloid clade

• Cantharellus - white (or pale) spores,hymenophore with shallow ridges, often vase-shaped

• Craterellus - like above but without clamps, orusually with hollow stipes

• Clavulina - white to tan sparsely branched orbranched near base, branches often flattened,2-spored basidia

Cantharellus tubaeformis

Craterellus cornucopioides

Clavulina cinerea

Cantharellus sp.

Hydnum umbilicatum - a smaller version of H. repandumPhoto from Mykoweb

Artomyces - a coralloid member of the Russulales

Hericium erinaceus - a wood decay fungus in the Russulales

Genera in Thelephorales• Thelephora/Tomentella – smooth (or at least not pored

or toothed) hymenophore, spore brown, knobby andspiny. Stipitate in Thelephora, resupinate in Tomentella,

• Sarcodon (called Hydnum in Arora) spores likeThelephora, but hymenophore toothed, fruiting bodyrelatively soft and not incorporating litter as it grows(determinate)

• Hydnellum spores like Thelephora, but hymenophoretoothed, fruiting body tough and usuallyincorporating material as it grows (indeterminate)

• Phellodon - spore white and spiny, growthindeterminate

• Bankera – like Phellodon, but softer and withdeterminate growth

• Boletopsis – spores knobby but white, hymenophoretubular

Typical Thelephoroidspores

SEM view from Stalphers“keys to the species of the

Thelephorales”

Phellodon

Hydnellum

Sarcodon

Boletopsis

Thelephora americanain greenhouse pots of pine

Tomentella - a resupinate thelephoroid

Photo from Breitenbach and Kränzlin Fungi of Switzerland Vol 2

Hydnellum

Phellodon

Boletopsis a tubed thelephoroid

Photo from Breitenbach and Kränzlin Fungi of Switzerland Vol 2