Families in the Aphyllophorales:

Auriscalpiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavariaceae, Corticiaceae, Echinodontiaceae, Fistulinaceae, Ganodermataceae, Gomphaceae, Hericiaceae, Hydnaceae, Hymenochaetaceae, Meruliaceae, Polyporaceae, Schizophyllaceae, Sparassidaceae; Stereaceae, Thelephoraceae

Clavariaceae: hymenophore amphigenous (i.e. located on all surfaces of the basidiocarp) and basidiocarp negatively geotropic (i.e., growing away from the ground); monomitic; spores smooth or echinulate

Clavulina cristata- macroscopically, usually identified by the multibranched tips; microscopically the basidium has extremely long sterigma which typically number only 2 for each basidium. This fungus is often placed in its own family rather than in the Clavariaceae? Why?

Ramaria stuntzii	Ramaria pinicola	Clavaria vermicularis	Clavaria purpurea	Clavaria zollingeri
Clavariadelphus pistillaris	Clavariadelphus taxophila	Ramariopsis kunzei	Typhula	Multiclavula

classification for Basidiomycotina

rusts and smuts, jelly fungi (tremellales), jelly fungi (dacrymycetales), agaricales, aphyllophorales, gasteromycetes

genus and species

introductory features for Basidiomycotina