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 cornucopioides - DK: stor trompetsvamp UK: Horn of Plenty - in a pale form often referred to as C. konradii
Photo and © Jacob Heilmann-Clausen
Norway, JHC00-060

what is MycoKey? | borrow pictures? | list of genera |MycoKey home