Ampulloclitocybe clavipes, commonly known as the club-footed clitocybe, is a species of gilled mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...

 from Europe.

Although considered edible

Edible mushroom

Edible mushrooms are the fleshy and edible fruiting bodies of several species of fungi. Mushrooms belong to the macrofungi, because their fruiting structures are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. They can appear either below ground or above ground where they may be picked by hand...

, antabuse

Disulfiram

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-like reactions have been reported after consumption of alcohol after eating this mushroom. Though similar to the symptoms from Coprinopsis atramentaria

Coprinopsis atramentaria

Coprinopsis atramentaria, commonly known as the common ink cap or inky cap, is an edible mushroom found in Europe and North America. Previously known as Coprinus atramentarius, it is the second best known ink cap and previous member of the genus Coprinus after C. comatus...

, that species' active agent, coprine, has not been isolated.

It was initially described as Agaricus clavipes by Christian Hendrik Persoon

Christian Hendrik Persoon

Christiaan Hendrik Persoon was a mycologist who made additions to Linnaeus' mushroom taxonomy.-Early life:...

 in 1801, before German naturalist Paul Kummer

Paul Kummer

Paul Kummer was a priest, teacher, and scientist in Zerbst, Germany, known chiefly for his contribution to mycological nomenclature. Earlier classification of agarics by pioneering fungal taxonomist Elias Magnus Fries designated only a very small number of genera, with most species falling into...

 transferred it to Clitocybe

Clitocybe

Hundreds of species of mushrooms compose the fungus genus Clitocybe. They are characterized by white, off-white, buff, cream, pink, or light-yellow spores, gills running down the stem, and pale white to brown or lilac coloration. They are primarily saprotrophic, decomposing forest ground litter...

in 1871. It was moved into the newly created genus Ampulloclitocybe

Ampulloclitocybe

Ampulloclitocybe is a genus of three species of fungi with a widespread distribution....

in 2002. Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin

Latin

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terms clava "club", and pes "foot".