Clavaria falcata    Pers.:Fr. 

common name(s) : Pointed Club 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Agaricomycetidae/Agaricales/Clavariaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Cantharellales/Clavariaceae  

synonyms: Clavaria acuta 

edibility : discard

potential confusions with Clavaria falcata toxicity of Clavaria falcata genus Clavaria  

The fruiting body is column shaped, pure white.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods, on a rather calcareous soil.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.3 cm (between 0.1 and 0.5 cm)
  total height approximately 4 cm (between 1 and 8 cm)

Distinctive features : simple (not branching), sometimes in troops

Clavaria falcata is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .



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