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Mata, M., D. Penjor and S. Pradham. 2010. Fungi of Bhutan. National Mushroom Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Thimphu, Bhutan. Local name: No local name known Edibility: Edible. Habitat: Terrestrial on leaf litter and decayed logs and scattered to gregarious. Description: Cap: 2-5 cm in diameter, convex to campanulate, becoming plane to depressed, surface with fibrillose, red-orange, fading to yellow, margin plicate-striate. Hymenophore: Decurrent gills, distant to sub-distant, pale orange to light-yellow. Stem: 5-10 cm tall and up to 0.5 cm wide, surface longitudinally fibrillose, orange red to orange yellow to whitish toward the base. Flesh: Thin, orange-yellow. Spore Print: White. Comments: H. cantharellusis distinguished by the long, longitudinally fibrillose and yellow to orange stem, red orange cap that becomes yellow in age, and distant, decurrent, very pale yellow gills. |
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