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Chrysoconia orthospora McCabe & G.A. Escobar
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- Scientific name
- Chrysoconia orthospora
- Author
- McCabe & G.A. Escobar
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Boletales
- Family
- Coniophoraceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2023-03-02
- IUCN Red List Category
- DD
- Assessors
- Susana C. Gonçalves; Susana Cunha (RBG Kew and University of Coimbrta, Portugal)
- Reviewers
- Gregory Mueller (Chicago Botanic Garden / IUCN SSC Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball Specialist Group)
Assessment Notes
The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/265984131/266018511
Justification
Chrysoconia orthospora was described in 1979 after growing on incubated vegetable matter collected from a lake shore in Seattle, USA. It has never been recorded in nature and there are no further records or more information on this species, so it is assessed as Data Deficient (DD).Taxonomic notes
This is the type and only species in the monotypic genus Chrysoconia, described in 1979 based on the distinct morphological characteristics of Chrysoconia orthospora (McCabe and Escobar 1979).Geographic range
The species was described based on fruitbodies that grew in a laboratory on incubated leaf litter collected from a single site in Washington, USA (Montlake Playground on Lake Union in Seattle).Population and Trends
This species is only known from its description (McCabe and Escobar 1979), based on fruitbodies that grew in a laboratory on incubated leaf litter collected in one site in 1975 and 1976. Since no more records or observations in natural habitat are available it is not possible to estimate the current population size.
Population Trend: Unknown