Clavicipitaceae is a family of fungi within the order Hypocreales. It consists of 43 genera, and 321 species. ==Phylogeny== Molecular phylogenetic analysis of multigene DNA sequence data indicates that the taxon, Clavicipitaceae, is paraphyletic, and consists of three well-defined clades, at least one of which is shared with members of another fun...
[n] - any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycete
grainy club mushrooms noun any of various mushrooms of the class Ascomycetes