Clavulina vinaceocervina var. avellanea

'Clavulina vinaceocervina'' var. avellanea' is a variety of the Clavulina vinaceocervina'' species. It has been previously described as characterised by its fleshy brown to violaceus tan colour, contrasting the typical variety of Clavulina vinaceocervina, Clavulina vinaceocervina var. vinaceocervina, which has a pinkish-rosy colour. Observations of Clavulina vinaceocervina var''. avellanea'' since, however, have also shown a pinkish-rosy colour.

Description
The fruit bodies of C. vinaceocervina var. avellanea can be up to 6.5 × 2 cm. These fruit bodies are arbuscular and branched, with branches on 2–4 ranks, or can be subsimple, with club branching once or twice near the apex. The stipe is short and can merge with the hymenium of white mycelium. The stipe may be clothed at the base with a hispid mycelium of a whitish colour. The stipe is flattened or lobed in cross section and has a pale to light yellow colour, thus it is concolorous with branches.

The branches are flattened and can be covered with white powder (spores) and hispid from cystidia. The colour is a pale to light yellow when young but can become fleshy brown to violaceous tan.

Microscopic features
The spores of C. vinaceocervina var. avellanea are globose, broadly ovate and hyaline (thin and translucent); 7.6–11.2 x 7.9–10.4 μm. Tramal hyphae of upper club or branches are hyaline and thin- to thick-walled (up to 0.2 μm thick); 2.5–7 μm in diameter. Hyphae are generally but loosely parallel. Cystidia are cylindrical, slightly thick-walled (up to 0.5 μm thick) and rounded at apex; 85–160 × 10–12 μm.

Habitat
Clavulina vinaceocervina var. avellanea can be found under mixed podocarp and Nothofagus forest.

Etymology
Vinaceo, from the Latin word which means 'wine-coloured'.

Cervina, from the Latin word which means 'of or pertaining to a deer'.

Avellanea from the Latin word which means 'hazel-coloured', 'nut-brown' (a light brown).

Edibility
Clavulina vinaceocervina var. avellanea is not edible.