Local name: Taai Namcho

Edibility: Edible

Habitat: Scattered to gregarious and terrestrial.

Description: Fruiting bodies: Two or more irregularly shaped caps arising from a shared stem and often fusing together at their edges, up to 17 cm high and 20 cm across, individual caps with wavy and irregular margins, somewhat centrally depressed at maturity. Upper Surface: Pale brown to light or dark violet, often fading to creamy tan or paler, smooth or with very tiny scattered scales. Hymenophore: Wrinkled, dirty whitish or purple when young but often fading to pale lilac, running down the stem. Stem: 3-5cm tall and 1-3 cm wide, whitish below and violet near the hymenophore, sometimes bruising reddish brown, fairly smooth above, but with a somewhat velvety base. Flesh: Whitish to pinkish or pale lilac. Spore Print: Brownish.

Comments: Also known as Cantharellus clavatus, this northern conifers-lover is easily distinguished by its overall shape, dull purplish veined spores-producing surface, and growth habits in fused clusters. This species is found plenty in Ura forest.