Clavulicium | |
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Clavulicium macounii | |
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Family: | Stereopsidaceae
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Genus: | Clavulicium
Boidin (1957)
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Clavulicium pilatii (Boidin) Boidin (1957)
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Clavulicium is a genus of corticioid fungi in the family Stereopsidaceae. It was formerly placed in the family Clavulinaceae in the order Cantharellales but was found to belong in a new order along with Stereopsis in 2014. [2] [3] The widespread genus was circumscribed by the French mycologist Jacques Boidin in 1957. [4] The spores and the basidia of species in the genus are similar to those in Clavulina but also similar to those in Stereopsis. [3] Clavulicium globosum is now a species of Stereopsis. [3]