Pipe Club - Macrotyphula fistulosa var. fistulosa

Often somewhat laterally flattened and sometimes longitudinally grooved; occasionally straight but more often wavy; simple clubs with blunt, rounded or mitriform tips; ochre to light brown but occasionally more orange towards the fertile tips. The individual stems are typically 5 to 30cm tall and 5 to 10mm across.

Saprobic, on the ground in leaf litter in deciduous woodlands and on woodland edges; sometimes growing from rotting wood, particularly birch.

June to November.

Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.

Uncommon in Leicestershire and Rutland.