Table 3. Morphological features of Afrocantharellus and Cantharellus.

Basidiome colour

always variegated

Mostly uniformly coloured

Hymenophore

well-developed with thick diverging folds

Poorly-developed, without folds or with thin folds but never with thick diverging folds

Folds

thick, blunt, always decurrent and distantly spaced

Relatively thin, sharp, subdecurrent or decurrent and not distantly spaced

Clamp connections

Mostly absent

Mostly present