Craterellus sinuosus    (Fr.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Sinuous Chanterelle, Sinuous Funnel Cap 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Cantharellales/Cantharellaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

synonyms: Pseudocraterellus undulatus, Pseudocraterellus sinuosus, Craterellus undulatus, Cantharellus sinuosus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Craterellus floccosus, Craterellus floriformis, Cantharellus kunthii, Pseudocraterellus pertenuis, Cantharellus pusillus, Craterellus pusillus, Merulius undulatus)  

edibility : edible, good

photo gallery of  Craterellus sinuosus
photo gallery of  Craterellus sinuosus potential confusions with  Craterellus sinuosus toxicity of Craterellus sinuosus genus Craterellus  

The cap is grey-brown to very pallid grey, very hygrophanous, trumpet- or funnel-shaped, usually without a hole in the centre, irregular; its margin is paler, very wavy-curly, lobed. The cap surface is smooth to slightly flaky, not viscid nor sticky, but hygrophanous.

The stem is sandy to buff, then whitish, hollow, tapering towards base, a single stem often shared by several caps, without ring.

The flesh is thin, whitish, unchanging; its taste is mild; the odour is faint, fruity; its texture is fibrous.

The gills are whitish to grey, paler and creamier than stem, but these are not gills, but veins or ridges, sometimes interconnected by smaller veins, quite distant, decurrent and forked . The spore print is white. This species is mycorrhizal. It grows on the ground, sometimes in small tufts of a few samples, in the grass, with broad-leaved woods, on a rather loamy and sandy soil, with oak, beech.

The fruiting period takes place from July to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 3.5 cm (between 0.5 and 6 cm)
  height of stem approximately 5 cm (between 1.5 and 10 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 6 mm (between 2 and 10 mm)

Chemical tests : none.

Distinctive features : Brown then ash-grey cap, hygrophanous, lobed and very wavy, with a paler margin; fertile surface composed of grey to whitish veins or ridges; with broad-leaved trees

Craterellus sinuosus is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is infrequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Craterellus sinuosus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Craterellus sinuosus in the forest of Rambouillet



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