Phylum：Basidiomycota　>>　Class： Basidiomycetes　>>　 Order： Cantharellales 
   
 
　BCRC Number： NO BCRC Number!  
   
　Scientific Name： Cantharellus cibarius
 
   
   
　Author：

Cantharellus cibarius Fr., Syst. Myc. 1: 318. 1821.
   
 
 
 
 
　Description： Pileus 3-8 cm, funnel-shaped to infundibuliform, egg-yellow, smooth, margin lobed, flesh white to pale yellow, solid to fragile, odor fruity. Hymenium decurrent, gill-like ridges, branch to veins, concolorous with the pileus. Stipe equal, 2-4 × 0.5-1.5 cm, solid to cham-bered, concolorous with the pileus. Spore print white. Spores elliptical to oval, hyaline, smooth, with oil drops, 7-9 × 4.5-6 μm, I-. Cystidia not seen. Basidia slenderly clavate, 50-66 × 6-10 μm, with 4 sterigmata and basal clamp. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 2-6 μm across, septa with clamp.
 
 
 
 
 
　Specimens：

Taiwan, Nantou: Tungpu-Kuankao, 24 Aug. 1995, W.N. Chou, CWN 01205 (TNM F3815). Nantou: Lienhuachih, 19 Oct. 1995, W.N. Chou, CWN 01331 (TNM F4417).
 
 
 
　Habitat： Lignicolous. In hardwood forest, especially common under Fagaceae trees.
 
 
 
　Distribution：

Europe, North America, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
 
 
 
　References：

Bon, M. 1987; Breitenbach, J and Kranzlin, F. 1986; Imazeki, R and Hongo, T. 1989.
   
   
   
　Provided：

W. N. Chou
 
 
　Note： This species is edible and delicious. Cantharellus subcibarius is similar to C. cibarius in morphology but with smaller basidiospores (Bon, 1987; Breitenbach and Kranzlin, 1986; Imazeki and Hongo, 1989).