Chantharelles: hymenophore in the form of blunt edged ridges or wrinkled; spores smooth, colorless, not cyanophilic.

• Cantharellus: hymenophore wrinkled to ridged, pallid to yellowish or pinkish; spores hyaline; clamp connections present
• Craterellus: hymenophore wrinkled, vinaceous, purplish, or gray; spores hyaline or buff to yellowish; clamp connections absent.

Gomphaceae: . basidiocarp fleshy; hymenophore merulioid-like, wrinkled to almost smooth; spores yellowish-brown in deposite, rough, cyanophilic.

• Gomphus clavatus ('pig's ears) on the left with lilac to grey hymenophore; Gomphus floccosus on the right with reddish-orange pileus.

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