Redleg Club

Typhula erythropus

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By Roger Phillips

Published 2006

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Redleg Club Typhula erythropus (Pers.) Fr. syn. Clavaria erythropus Pers. (illustrated 80% life size) Fruit body 5–30mm high, fertile head white and cylindrical to fusiform, stem reddish-brown and thread-like, arising from an elliptical blackish sclerotium on the substrate. Spores 5–9×2.5–3.5¼, oblong; white. Habitat in deciduous woodland on fallen leaves, petioles or other herbaceous debris; autumn. Frequent. Not edible.