alloclavaria is a clavarioid genus in the hymenochaetales recently segregated from "clavaria" by molecular analysis. phylogenetically related fungi are in the agaricoid genera "rickenella", "contumyces", "gyroflexus", "loreleia", "cantharellopsis" and "blasiphalia", as well as the stipitate stereoid genera "cotylidia" and "muscinupta". the only species as yet placed in "alloclavaria" is the type, formerly known as "clavaria purpurea" under which name it is often cited or illustrated.. it is suspected, via circumstantial evidence, i.e. habitat, but not proven, that "alloclavaria" is mycorrhizal.