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Cantharellales is an order of basidiomycotic fungi. It includes fungi of widely different appearance but which have been identified as closely related through molecular phylogeny (studies of their DNA). The families in this order include Aphelariaceae, Botryobasidiaceae, Cantharellaceae, Clavulinaceae and Hydnaceae.

Resources in This Category

• Cantharellales

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellales
  Photographs and information from Wikipedia about this group of fungi which includes the important genera Cantharellus, Craterellus and Hydnum.

• Cantharellus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus
  The chanterelles are widely used as food. Photographs and information from Wikipedia describing several species and how they can be used.

• Cantharellus cibarius

  http://www.cortland.edu/nsf/ccibariu.HTML
  This species was photographed in the Dominican Republic.

• Cantharellus cibarius (Chanterelle)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157002.htm
  Several photographs of this species.

• Cantharellus ignicolor

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/ignicol.html
  Photograph and information on this species.

• Cantharellus lateritius

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/lateritius.html
  Photograph and information on this species.

• Cantharellus lilacinus

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/canlilac.html
  Photograph and information on this species, sometimes classified as Cantharellus atrolilacinus.

• Clavulina cinerea (a coral fungus)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r157388.htm
  Many photographs of this species.

• Clavulinaceae

  http://www.commanster.eu/commanster/Mushrooms/Basidio/Clavulinaceae.html
  Photographs of Clavulina cinerea, coralloides and rugosa.

• Craterellus

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craterellus
  Photograph and information from Wikipedia on this genus, the members of which are distinguished by their lack of gill-like structures on the underside of their caps.

• Craterellus boyacensis

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/crater.html
  Photograph and information on this species.

• Craterellus cornucopioides (Horn of Plenty)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r151339.htm
  Several photographs of this species.

• Craterellus fallax

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/fallax.html
  Information and a photograph of this species.

• Craterellus fallax

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/july98.html
  Article by Tom Volk on this edible fungus, the Black Trumpet, and some other Craterellus species.

• Craterellus tubaeformis

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/jan2008.html
  Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this species, known as Tubies in California.

• Gloeomucro chlorinus

  http://www.nybg.org/bsci/res/hall/mucro.html
  Information and a photograph of this species dangling from the underside of a log.

• Hydnum repandum

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum_repandum
  Photograph and information from Wikipedia on the Hedgehog Fungus, so named because it has spines instead of gills.

• Hydnum repandum

  http://americanmushrooms.com/taxa/Hydnum_repandum_01a.htm
  Several photographs of this species, the Sweet-tooth Mushroom.

• Hydnum repandum (Wood Hedgehog, Hedgehog Fungus)

  http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/r151363.htm
  Photographs of fruitbodies of this species and microscopic images of the spores.

• Hydnum umbilicatum

  http://americanmushrooms.com/taxa/Hydnum_umbilicatum_02.htm
  Several photographs of this species.

• Hydnum umbilicatum, the Sweet Tooth Mushroom

  http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct2004.html
  Article with photographs by Tom Volk on this and other related species.

 

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