cantharellus

The genus Cantharellus is large and has a complex taxonomic history.

It is a member of the genus Cantharellus along with other chanterelles.

The genera Craterellus and Cantharellus have always been recognized as closely related.

Numerous species of Cantharellus have at times been classified under Craterellus, but these are mostly excluded from the table.

Paul Heinemann transferred it to Cantharellus in 1958.

It is probably the best known species of the genus Cantharellus, if not the entire family of Cantharellaceae.

Like all species in the genus Cantharellus, C. lateritius is edible, and considered choice by some.

It is one of the smallest of the genus Cantharellus, which includes other edible chanterelles.

It was originally described in 1941 by Sanshi Imai as a species of Cantharellus.

First described in 1966 as a species of Cantharellus, it was transferred to the new genus Afrocantharellus in 2012.

Other species in the closely related genera Cantharellus and Craterellus may appear similar to the golden chanterelle.

Afrocantharellus, segregated as a genus distinct from Cantharellus in 2012, has four species found only in Africa.

American mycologist Rolf Singer transferred it to the genus Cantharellus in 1951.

Cantharellopsis is named in reference to its vague similarity to the genus Cantharellus and means, Cantharellus-like.

Cantharellus spectaculus is a species of fungus in the genus Cantharellus.

Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca has been confused with the true chanterelles (genus Cantharellus) because of overall similarities in appearance.

Molecular phylogenetics have been applied to the problem of discriminating between Craterellus and Cantharellus genera.

Molecular phylogenetics has shown that C. tubaeformis deserves its reclassification from Cantharellus to Craterellus.

Some species of 'Cantharellus', such as the 'yellowfoot chanterelle', have been re-examined and moved to the closely related genus 'Craterellus'.

Species of Elaphomyces, Suillus, Cortinarius, Cantharellus, and hydnums were almost exclusively limited to mature stands.

Fries himself classified Gomphus as a tribe within the genus Cantharellus in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum.

The fungus was first described by American mycologist Elizabeth Eaton Morse in 1930 as a species of Cantharellus.

The genus 'Cantharellus' contains many species known generally as chanterelles, though for the most part the name refers to the most famous species 'C. cibarius'.

Hygrophoropsis was originally circumscribed in 1888 by German mycologist Joseph Schröter as a subgenus of Cantharellus.

Many species of Cantharellus, Craterellus, and Goossensia are edible and several are collected and marketed on a commercial scale.