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.