Redleg Club - Typhula erythropus
A small white club with a red-brown stem growing from a brown disc-like sclerotium on the petioles, midribs etc. of the leaves of various deciduous trees and shrubs. The stem is minutely hairy - use hand lens.
There are several other species of small white clubs growing on leaf litter.
Photograph in its habitat; note the substrate and host plant species
Deciduous trees and shrubs - e.g. alder, poplar, ash.
GHunt
oadby nature reserve (woodland)
02 November 2025
GHunt
Prior's Coppice
30 October 2025
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Species profile
- Common names
- Redleg Club
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Typhulaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 2
- First record:
- 30/10/2025 (Hunt, Graham)
- Last record:
- 02/11/2025 (Hunt, Graham)
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