Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• AscomycotaPhylum
• └─ SordariomycetesClass
• └─ OphiocordycipitaceaeFamily
• └─ TolypocladiumGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

not recorded

Mossy spruce forest, above buried Elaphomyces truffles

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

not recorded

Not edible

• ▸ Orange-brown to yellowish, tongue-like clubs rising from the ground
• ▸ Each club is deeply rooted in the soil via a darkened holdfast
• ▸ Parasitic on the underground fruit bodies of Elaphomyces ('hart's truffle')
• ▸ Occurs in small, scattered groups in mossy coniferous forest

aka Tolypocladium ophioglossoides