Local name: No local name known

Edibility:Edible

Habitat: Solitary to gregarious and terrestrial under hard woods and in mixed woods.

Description: Fruit bodies: 5-20cm tall, 1-4cm wide, light yellow to deep ochre, with a purplish-lavender bloom over the stem, dry, smooth, with longitudinal wrinkles on the lower part of the club, never branching. Flesh: Firm then soft and spongy, white, bruising brownish. Spore Print: Whitish.

Comments: The ochre-brown to flesh coloured, club-shaped fruiting body that stains brown when handled is characteristic of this cosmopolitan club coral. Its apex is sometimes quite broad, but not as flagrantly flattened as that of C. truncatus. Other species, C. subfastigiatus is a brownish–orange species which does not discolour as much when handled.