Spore print white. Caps often distorted in shape, sunken in the centre and somewhat funnel-shaped. The gills are poorly developed, with a fold-like appearance. The stalk is short and has no ring. Brightly coloured, often in large swarms on the forest floor.

The bright yellow Cantharellus wellingtonensis is common throughout the country. Its biology is uncertain, but is particularly common under tea-tree and Nothofagus, and it may be ectomycorrhizal.

The only other species reported for New Zealand is the rarely collected, salmon-coloured C. elsae.

Small, pale to brightly coloured mushrooms, with poorly developed, decurrent gills, stipe irregularly eccentric, cap becoming irreguarly umbilicate.

Often occurs in large numbers, usually associated with either beech or tea-tree, presumably ectomycorrhizal.

Three species have been reported from New Zealand, only those listed below have descriptions or images available from NZFungi.

Pileus often fleshy but thin in small species, often lobed or irregular; gills more or less decurrent, narrow, edge thick, entire; stem central, excentric, or absent; spores white, smooth.

Distinguished among white-spored genera with decurrent gills by the narrow entire gills having the edge blunt or thickened. Growing on the ground.