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Gomphus clavatus (Pers.) Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 638 (1821)

Clavaria elveloides Wulfen, in Jacquin, Misc. Austriaca Bot. 2: 99 (1781)
Merulius clavatus Pers., Observ. mycol. (Copenhagen) 1: 21 (1795)
Cantharellus clavatus (Pers.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 322 (1821)
Craterellus clavatus (Pers.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 533 (1838)
Nevrophyllum clavatum (Pers.) Pat., Revue mycol. Toulouse 8(no. 29): 27 (1886)

Habitat: On soil or decayed wood in deciduous woodland.

Notes: Rarely collected and possibly extinct. Only six records during the twentieth century, mostly from scattered localities in southern England. Last recorded from East Gloucestershire in 1927. A single old record from the Republic of Ireland (Offaly), unsubstantiated with voucher material.

Distribution: E: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 119079

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 368, pl. 480
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 270

Conservation Status: Endangered (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Extinct 1927 (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006); BAP species

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