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Cantharellus heinemannianus Eyssart. & Buyck

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Scientific name
Cantharellus heinemannianus
Author
Eyssart. & Buyck
Common names
 
IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Cantharellales
Family
Cantharellaceae
Assessment status
Published
Assessment date
2021-03-08
IUCN Red List Category
LC
Assessors
Westrip, J.R.S.
Reviewers
Dahlberg, A.

Assessment Notes

The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/217821576/217822258

Justification

Cantharellus heinemannianus is a chanterelle species of miombo woodland. It appears to occur in several sub-Saharan countries, and could be even more widespread than known. It is not thought to warrant a listing as threatened under any criterion, and so is assessed as Least Concern.

Geographic range

This species was described from the Copperbelt Province of Zambia, at Chibouli (Eyssartier and Buyck 1998), but it is likely to be widespread in miombo woodland, with reports of its consumption in Zimbabwe (Mlambo and Maphosa 2017), and also records from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (Botanicalcollections.be 2021). There is a record from Tanzania in GBIF.org, although from some years before the species was described, so whether it represents this species strictly is uncertain, although it is potentially within an area of suitable habitat.

Population and Trends

There is no quantitative information regarding the population size and trend, although ongoing anthropogenic activities in miombo woodland are suspected to be leading to declines.

Population Trend: decreasing

Habitat and Ecology

The genus Cantharellus consists of species that form ectomycorrhizal associations with trees. This is a woodland species (Buyck et al. 2013) of the miombo of southern Africa. It was described from an area of quite humid forest (Eyssartier and Buyck 1998).

Threats

There are ongoing threats to miombo woodland from logging and land conversion to agriculture (see Jew et al. 2016).

Conservation Actions

Surveys to ascertain the ecology and the full range of the species would be beneficial.

Use and Trade

This species is consumed and potentially has medicinal uses (Reid et al. 2016, Mlambo and Maphosa 2017).

Source and Citation

Westrip, J.R.S. 2022. Cantharellus heinemannianus. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2022: e.T217821576A217822258. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2022-2.RLTS.T217821576A217822258.en .Accessed on 21 December 2024

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