Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Terrestrial and scatted to gregarious.

Description: Cap: 2-5cm, deeply depressed, scaly surface, not viscid, black in colour when wet but becoming dark grey when dried, wavy margin, sometimes torn. Hymenophore: Fold like pseudo gills which forked near the cap margin, well-spaced and shallow, bluish black which becomes greyish or paler due to spore dust. Stem: 2-8cm tall, equal or tapering at the base, central or off centred, tough, hollow except at the base, con-colours to the hymenophore. Flesh: Thin, tough and con-colours to the cap. Spore Print: Whitish.

Comments: The horn of plenty that is so common in the summer and fall looks and taste identical but has a yellow–tinted underside in age, otherwise, there is little that C.cornucopioides can be confused with the dark trumpet shaped fruiting body with smooth or slightly wrinkled exterior and hollow centre. C. cinereus is somewhat similar but has primitive gills.