Club-shaped fungi can be found in both the Ascomycota and the Basidiomycota. Typically they consist of single club-like shapes that emerge from the ground, false truffles or even insect larvae. Unlike toothed fungi which have downward pointing spines, both club and coral-like fungi grow upward from their respective substrates.
Coral-shaped fungi resemble sea corals. Some consist of individual delicate and thin fruting bodies that may grow gregareously but separately from leaves and other forest debris. Most coral fungi, however, generally are clustered or even fused at a common base. Some emerge from dead of dying wood, while others are terrestrial. The club and coral fungi are an artificial category. Representatives are in several different distantly related orders and families.
Some of the fungi included below can also be found listed in other morphological categories, such as Sebacina schweinitzii (Tremellodendron schweinitzii), which is somewhat gelatinous.
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CLUB FUNGI
CALOCERA_____cornea, _____viscosa
CLAVARIADELPHUS____americanus,____pistillaris,____truncatus_____unicolor
CORAL-LIKE FUNGI
ARTOMYCES (Clavicorona)____pyxidatus
CLAVARIA____fragilis(vermicularis)____fumosa____fuscata____pulchra____zollingeri
CLAVULINA____amethystina,____cinerea,____coralloides (cristata),____ornatipes,____rugosa
CLAVULINOPSIS____aurantiocinnabarinus____corniculata____fusiformis___helvola____laeticolor
LENTARIA____byssiseda ____micheneri
RAMARIOPSIS____corniculata____kunzei
CAULIFLOWER MUSHROOMS
SPARASSIS_____americana_____spathulata
FIBER FANS
THELEPHORA____anthrocephalus____cuticularis_____palmatus_____terrestris____vialis