About this fungus
Handsome Club is a fungus in the Clavariaceae family. Its habitat and field characteristics are summarised below.
Small bright yellow-orange clubs growing singly or in loose groups among moss, turf or woodland litter.
What to check
Fruit bodies are usually simple, slender and blunt-tipped, sometimes slightly flattened or sparingly divided, with a paler base. Spores form over the outer surface, so there are no gills, pores, ring or volva. Microscopy is often needed among similar small clubs.
Habitat and range
On soil among leaf litter in damp woodland and also in unimproved grassland, heath and mossy places. Its nutritional mode is not securely resolved by field appearance.
Food safety
Inedible.
Photographs
Jason Hollinger / CC BY 2.0Species to compare
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