MycoKey : the genus Craterellus

Generic short diagnoses: Ectomycorrhiza formers with blackish, grey or yellow, funnel-shaped (hollow) fruitbodies with smooth or veined, thickening hymenium, and stichic basidia, without a basal clamp connection.


Species example:


Craterellus cinereus - DK: tragt-kantarel UK: Ashen Chanterelle
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-92.280

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