Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus

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.[1] He placed it in the subgenus Gomphus.[1]

Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Cantharellales
Family:	Cantharellaceae
Genus:	Pseudocraterellus
Species:	P. pseudoclavatus
Binomial name
Pseudocraterellus pseudoclavatus (A.H. Sm.) R.H. Petersen
Synonyms
Cantharellus pseudoclavatus A.H. Sm., 1947 Gomphus pseudoclavatus (A.H. Sm.) Corner, 1966

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.[1]

References

1. Smith AH, Morse EE. (1947). "The genus Cantharellus in the Western United States". Mycologia. 39 (5): 497–534 [505–06]. doi:10.2307/3755192. JSTOR 3755192. PMID 20264537.