Clavulinopsis sulcata

Clavulinopsis sulcata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Agaricales
Family:	Clavariaceae
Genus:	Clavulinopsis
Species:	C. sulcata
Binomial name
Clavulinopsis sulcata Overeem (1923)
Synonyms
Clavaria sulcata (Overeem) R.H.Petersen (1978)

Clavulinopsis sulcata is a clavarioid fungus in the family Clavariaceae and is the type species of the genus Clavulinopsis. It forms very long, slender, cylindrical pinkish or orange fruiting bodies that grow on the ground among plant litter.

Taxonomy

The species was originally described from Java in 1923 by Dutch mycologist Casper van Overeem, when he made it the type species of the newly circumscribed genus Clavulinopsis.^[1]

In his influential monograph of the

The fruit body of Clavulinopsis sulcata is cylindrical or somewhat club-shaped, up to 70 by 7 mm (2.8 by 0.3 in) borne on a cylindrical stipe up to 20 mm (0.8 in) long. Several fruit bodies may grow close together, or they may grow singly, or in groups of two or three. At first they are tapering, but become irregularly fleshy or inflated later, and ridged or wrinkled and somewhat waxy as they age. The flesh is pink or orange-pink; the stipe is a similar colour but is pale pinkish-salmon at the base. The flesh is odourless and tastes mildly of carrots, with a slightly bitter aftertaste. The spores are borne on the sides of the clubs and have thin walls; they measure 5.8–7.2 by 5.8–6.8 µm, and are globose and opalescent.[7]

Distribution and habitat

Clavulinopsis sulcata was initially described from Indonesia and has also been reported from eastern Australia and New Zealand, where its range includes the states of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania, as well as both islands of New Zealand. It is a fairly common fungus, and its conservation status has been assessed as being of

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