club fungus

noun

1. any basidiomycete fungus belonging to the family Clavariaceae.

Word History and Origins

Origin of club fungus¹

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

It still shows, however, the elements of a regular toadstool, only that the stem is much elongated and looks like a thread or a tube, while the cap is small, and this explains how, by gradual degeneration, the cap may disappear entirely, leaving nothing but a stem, as, for instance, in the case of the Clavaria deflexa, the club fungus, shown in Fig. 3b.

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