Phylum:Basidiomycota >> Class: Basidiomycetes >>  Order: Cantharellales 
   
 
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 Scientific Name: Craterellus aureus
 
   
   
 Author:

Craterellus aureus Berk. & Curt., N. Pacif. Expl. Exp. 103. 1856.

   
 
 
 
 
 Description: Pileus 2.5-4 cm, funnel-shaped to infundibuliform, orange-yellow to orange, smooth, margin decurved. Hymenium decurrent, smooth, orange. Stipe equal, 1.5-2.5 × 0.5-1 cm, hollowed, concolorous with the pileus. Spores elliptical, hyaline, smooth, with oil drops, 7-9 × 5-7 μm, I-. Cystidia not seen. Basidia slenderly clavate, 50-75 × 6-8 μm, with 4 sterigmata. Hyphal system monomitic, hyphae 3-9 μm across, septa without clamp.
 
 
 
 
 
 Specimens:

Taiwan, Nantou: Lienhuachih, 16 June 1994, W.N. Chou, CWN 00549 (TNM F2294).

 
 
 
 Habitat: On soil in hardwood forest.
 
 
 
 Distribution:

Asia.

 
 
 
 References:

Chou, WN. 2000; Imazeki, R and Hongo, T. 1989.

   
   
   
 Provided:

W. N. Chou

 
 
 Note: It is edible and usually found in tropics (Imazeki and Hongo, 1989).