- Scientific name
- Craterellus hypolyssoides
- Author
- Ces.
- Common names
-
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Cantharellales
- Family
- Cantharellaceae
- Assessment status
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Published
- Assessment date
- 2020-11-10
- IUCN Red List Category
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DD
- Assessors
- Liddle, T.A.
- Reviewers
- Westrip, J.R.S.
Assessment Notes
Justification
This species was initially described as growing in Sarawak, Malaysia (Cesati and Beccari 1879). Any further information regarding this species distribution, habitat preferences, or potential threats is lacking, although if any wild subpopulation of this species does exist within its known locality, it could be threatened by deforestation. Further information is required in order to assess the current status of any existing wild subpopulations of this species, and so until research is carried out to gather this information, this species is listed as Data Deficient.
Geographic range
The type of this species was originally found in Sarawak, Malaysia (Cesati and Beccari 1879), but the exact locality is uncertain.
Population and Trends
The current status of the wild population of this species is difficult to determine without further research, although this species could be under threat, and therefore show a decreasing population size. Further research is needed to affirm this claim, and so this species' population trends remain uncertain.
Population Trend: unknown
Habitat and Ecology
The original text for this species appears to describe this species as growing spread on the lower faces of the leathery leaves of a plant (see Cesati and Beccari 1879). This passage could possibly be referring to
Kokoona coriacea.
Threats
This species appears to exist within Malaysian forest, and it is possibly threatened by deforestation for palm oil harvesting, should any subpopulations remain. Furthermore,
Kokoona coriacea, with which this species is thought to possibly associate with, is itself threatened by such deforestation, as well as by disturbance for housing and urban areas. Further research is required, though, to ascertain the true range of the species and so whether it is actually being impacted by such threats.
Conservation Actions
The only known wild subpopulation of this species is thought to exist within threatened habitat. Protection of this species' habitat is needed. Further research is needed to determine the extent to which this species is threatened within its natural habitat, where this species occurs within Sarawak, and in order to determine whether this species does indeed associate with
Kokoona coriacea.
Source and Citation
Liddle, T.A. 2023. Craterellus hypolyssoides. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2023: e.T227000110A227535091.
https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2023-1.RLTS.T227000110A227535091.en .Accessed on 8 January 2025