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Cantharellus fibrillosus D. Kumari, Ram. Upadhyay & Mod.S. Reddy
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- Scientific name
- Cantharellus fibrillosus
- Author
- D. Kumari, Ram. Upadhyay & Mod.S. Reddy
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Cantharellales
- Family
- Hydnaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-02-24
- IUCN Red List Category
- DD
- Assessors
- James Westrip (IUCN Red List Unit)
- Reviewers
- Anders Dahlberg (Swedish Species Information Centre, Uppsala / IUCN SSC Cup-fungus, Truffle and Ally Specialist Group); 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/189959880/270327685
Justification
Cantharellus fibrillosus is only known from specimens collected in temperate forest in the region of Simla, Himachal Pradesh, India. If the species were to be restricted to this area its population size would be very small, and it could even warrant a listing as Critically Endangered. However, the tree species that it was found under have very wide ranges throughout the Himalayas, and so if it were to occur throughout this range then the species could warrant listing as Least Concern. Given the high levels of uncertainty, C. fibrillosus is assessed as Data Deficient.Geographic range
Cantharellus fibrillosus is known from Dhalli forest and Khada Pathar forest in Himachal Pradesh, India, not far from Simla (Deepika et al. 2013). Specimens were found on soil under Cedrus deodara and Pinus wallichiana (Deepika et al. 2013), and these species have very wide ranges in the Himalayas (Farjon 2013a,b), so its full distribution could be a lot larger than currently known.Population and Trends
This species is considered to be gregarious or growing in clumps, where it has been found (Deepika et al. 2013). Despite this, given that its known range is very restricted the total known population size could be very small. On the other hand, species it has been found growing under are very widespread in the Himalayas (Farjon et al. 2013a,b), and so the population size could be very large. In essence, therefore, the population size is unknown. There are some ongoing threats to the trees it has been found growing under, but it is currently not possible to accurately translate these into an idea of the overall population trend of Cantharellus fibrillosus.
Population Trend: Unknown