Multiclavula vernalis

Multiclavula vernalis or the orange club-mushroom lichen^[4] is a species of clavarioid fungus in the Clavulinaceae (club-mushroom lichen) family. It was originally named as a species of Clavaria in 1822 by Lewis David de Schweinitz.^[5] Ronald H. Petersen transferred it to Multiclavula in 1967.^[6]

Multiclavula vernalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Cantharellales
Family:	Hydnaceae
Genus:	Multiclavula
Species:	M. vernalis
Binomial name
Multiclavula vernalis (Schwein.) R.H.Petersen (1967)
Synonyms[1]
Clavaria vernalis Schwein. (1822) Clavulinopsis vernalis (Schwein.) Corner (1950)[2] Stichoclavaria vernalis (Schwein.) Paechn. (1987)[3]