The fungus produces small, ochre to ochre-yellow fruit bodies (mushrooms) with thin flesh and a long tapering stipe.

The type collection was made in August 2008 in the Bitahai National Natural Reserve, located in Shangri-La County, Yunnan, China.

[2] The specific epithet zangii honors Chinese mycologist Zang Mu, founder of the Cryptogamic Herbarium in the Kunming Institute of Botany.

[1] Fruit bodies have caps ranging in shape from umbonate to flat to slightly concave, reaching a diameter of 2–3 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄4 in).

[1] Similar species include the European Cantharellus queletii, but this mushroom can be distinguished by its solid stipe and the lack of cross-veins between the gills.

Another European species, Craterellus tubaeformis, has a horn-shaped fruit body with depressed caps, and grey or greyish-white gills.