30/Aug/2026, 3:39 PM
Valgejõe, Harju, Eesti
Mixed forest (around pines), deep in moss (Hylocomium splendens)
59°27'28.9"N 25°43'21.2"E
🌡️ 18°C 🌧️🌥️ Sprinkles, broken clouds 💨 Wind 220° SW->NE, 13 km/h
Original Instagram postAmpulloclitocybe clavipes
Club Foot
- Scientific identification
- Ampulloclitocybe clavipes (Pers.) Redhead, Lutzoni, Moncalvo & Vilgalys
- Family
- Hygrophoraceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Ampulloclitocybe
Names across languages
- English: Club Foot
- German: Keulenfuß-Trichterling
- Finnish: nuijamalikka
- Estonian: Nuijalg-lehtrik
- Russian: Бутылоговорушка булавоногая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-08-30.
Hymenium
Gills close to moderately spaced, with frequent lamellulae; white to cream when young, becoming pale ochre to brownish with age
Cap
Convex to nearly flat when young, later centrally depressed to funnel-shaped; smooth to slightly rugged centrally; grey-brown, yellow-brown to dark brown, usually darker at centre and paler toward margin
Hymenium Attachment
Strongly decurrent
Stipe
Short, robust, buff to pale brownish; characteristically club-shaped or bulbous at base, though sometimes nearly equal with age; base often spongy with white mycelium; ring absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Ecology uncertain, reported as saprobic or possibly mycorrhizal; primarily under conifers, sometimes hardwoods; alone, scattered or gregariously; forests, mainly heathland; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Edible, not recommended; alcohol may trigger a disulfiram-like reaction
Uses & compounds
Coprine-like aldehyde dehydrogenase inhibitor
Fruit body
Fruit body medium; stipe ~2.5–8 cm long and ~0.5–3 cm thick
Dimensions
Cap ∅ ~2–10 cm
Flesh
White, soft to spongy, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No macroscopic reagents reaction
Odour
Pleasant, fruity
Taste
Mild
Microscopy
Spores ellipsoid to ovoid or elongated-ellipsoid, smooth to minutely ornamented, hyaline, inamyloid, ~6–10 × 3–5 µm; basidia 4-spored; occasional clavate pseudocystidia; pileipellis a cutis; clamp connections present
Overview
Grey-brown funnel with strongly decurrent gills and a distinctive club-shaped stipe
2002). Mycotaxon 83: 36.
Field encounters
Source hashtags
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