Turbinellus floccosus is a cantharelloid mushroom of the family Gomphaceae. The orange-capped vase- or trumpet-shaped fruiting bodies may reach 30cm high and 30cm wide. Though mild-tasting, they generally cause gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea when consumed.
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Turbinellus floccosus is a cantharelloid mushroom of the family Gomphaceae native to Asia and North America. The orange-capped vase- or trumpet-shaped fruiting bodies may reach 30cm high and 30cm wide. The lower surface, the hymenium, is covered in wrinkles and ridges rather than gills or pores, and is pale buff or yellowish to whitish. Though mild-tasting, they generally cause gastrointestinal symptoms of nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea when consumed. T. floc cosus is eaten by local people in northeastern India, Nepal and Mexico. The generic name is derived from the Ancient Greek gomphos, meaning large wedge-shaped nail. In Nepal, it is known as diyo chyau or khumbheau, from the words diyo, meaning lampyau, and chau, meaning shaggy.
It is more closely related to true chanterelles than true stinkhorns, though it has a shape similar to the latter. The species was first described as Cantherellus fliccosus in 1834 by American mycologist Lewis David de Schweinitz, who reported it growing in beech woods in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. In 1909, Franklin Sumner Earle made C. floc Cosus the type species of the new genus TurbinellUS. In 1945, Rolf Singer transferred the species to Gom phus. In 1966, the taxon was resurrected and the species became T. bonarii. It has been given the common names of scaly vaselle, woolly, or bedshitter’s chanterelle. It was also known as the same as the common name of the same species, T. floc cosus.
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