Cantharellus guyanensis

Cantharellus guyanensis
Cantharellus guyanensis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Subclass: Agaricomycetidae
Order: Cantharellales
Family: Cantharellaceae
Genus: Cantharellus
Species: C. guyanensis
Binomial name
Cantharellus guyanensis
Mont. 1854
Synonyms[1]

Merulius guyanensis (Mont.) Kuntze (1891)

Cantharellus guyanensis is a tropical South American species of mushroom-forming fungus in the chanterelle genus (Cantharellus), first described by Camille Montagne from French Guiana in 1854.[2]

It has since also been found in Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil. The fruit bodies have a bright orange cap colour and occur in medium- to large-sized troops. C. guyanensis seems to prefer sand-rich soil and forms ectomycorrhiza with a putatively wide range of host trees and shrubs including Coccoloba, Guapira, and Neea. Its congeners Cantharellus aurantioconspicuus, C. amazonensis, and C. protectus, all described from Brazil, are similar species.[3]

Although edible, C. guyanensis seems to be shunned by the Patamona people of Guyana who however use several other mushroom species occurring in their land.[4] Known as "chanterelle de Guyane" in French, the species is presumbly eaten in French Guiana.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "MycoBank: Cantharellus guyanensis". Retrieved 2015-11-14.
  2. ↑ Montagne, JPFC. (1854). "Cryptogamia Guyanensis seu plantarum cellularium in Guyana gallica annis 1835-1849 a cl. Leprieur collectarum enumeratio universalis". Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique (in French). 1: 91–144.
  3. ↑ Henkel, TW.; Wilson, AW.; Aime, MC.; Dierks, J.; Uehling, JK.; Roy, M.; Schimann, H.; Wartchow, F.; Mueller, GM. (2014). "Cantharellaceae of Guyana II: New species of Craterellus, new South American distribution records for Cantharellus guyanensis and Craterellus excelsus, and a key to the Neotropical taxa" (pdf). Mycologia. 106 (2): 307–324. doi:10.3852/106.2.307. ISSN 0027-5514.
  4. ↑ Henkel, TW.; Aime, MC.; Chin, M.; Andrew, C. (2004). "Edible mushrooms from Guyana" (pdf). Mycologist. 18 (3): 104–111. doi:10.1017/S0269915X04003027. ISSN 0269-915X.
  5. ↑ Lafleur, C.; Roy, M.; Schimann, H. (2013). "Connaissez-vous la chanterelle de Guyane ?" (pdf). Une saison en Guyane (in French). 11: 98.

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