Gomphus clavatus - Mushroom reaches 40 -100 mm in height and 20-60 mm in diameter; young specimens have the color lilac, purple, which with age becomes ocher-brown, dirty-brown, yellowish; the young sporocarps have a conical shape, clubbed with a cut top, which changes as they age in capillaries with an enlarged apex, a cup-shaped concave or funnel-shaped bowl; upper surface smooth, slightly pubescent, and sometimes wavy wrinkled; the shore is sharp, wavy.

Hymenophore in young specimens violet, pink-yellow, and with age begins to fade and becomes yellowish, ocher-brown; cover the sides of the fruiting body, in the form of thick, longitudinal and transverse, forked slats, folds, sometimes connecting to the mesh; it runs low on the short shaft.

The stem is short, indistinct, covered with hymenophore strips.

The flesh is white, soft, full - there are no empty spaces; weak odor; mild taste.

Occurrence: very rare, found in the middle and upper parts of the mountains; sporocarps grow from August to October, most often in groups, often in rows or in black circles, in coniferous forests: spruce, fir, less frequently in mixed; fruiting bodies are often sprouted together.

Value: edible.