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Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Agaricomycetes

Family
  
Cantharellaceae

Rank
  
Species

Division
  
Basidiomycota

Order
  
Cantharellales

Genus
  
Pseudocraterellus

Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus is a species of fungus in the family Cantharellaceae. Smith described it in 1947 as Cantharellus pseudoclavatus, from a collection of a mushroom from the Siskiyou Fork of the Smith River in northern California. He reported it occurred in Washtenaw and Oakland counties in Michigan in oak hickory forest but added that he had mistaken it for G. clavatus as the two were very similar in appearance and hence it could be more widespread. He placed it in the subgenus Gomphus.

It is distinguished from G. clavatus microscopically by its smooth, broadly ellipsoid spores, lack of clamp connections and reaction of the hymenium, gills and flesh of the cap to potassium hydroxide.

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Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus Wikipedia