MycoKey : the genus Cantharellus

Generic short diagnoses: Firm-fleshed, yellowish or reddish, agaricoid ectotrophs, with thickened, forked and veined, decurrent lamellae; fruitbody solid; basidia stichic.


Species example:


Cantharellus melanoxeros - DK: sværtende kantarel UK: Blackening Chanterelle
Photo and © Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Denmark, 1999

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