Cantharellus

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Cantharellus (order Cantharellales) A genus of fungi in which the fruit body consists of a more or less funnel-shaped pileus with a central stipe. The hymenium is borne on wrinkles, or blunt gill-like ridges on the lower, or outermost, surface of the pileus. The genus includes the edible chanterelle.

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