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The Clavariaceae are a family of Basidiomycete mushroom-forming (in the broad sense) fungi, the earliest diverging lineage in the highly diverse order Agaricales, and is the sole member of the suborder Clavariineae.

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Fruiting bodies take on several forms but are dominated by simple to branched clavarioid forms distributed in the genera Clavaria, Clavulinopsis, Ramariopsis, Ceratellopsis, Hirticlavula, and Mucronella; the last genus being unique in producing positively geotropic fruiting bodies. Several genera are pileate-stipitate: craterelloid (with a smooth to channeled hymenium) in Clavicorona and agaricoid (with a lamellate hymenium) in Camarophyllopsis, Hodophilus, and Lamelloclavaria. That leaves only the little known resupinate genus Hyphodontiella.

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More to come.

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