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Cantharellus chicagoensis Leacock, J. Riddell, Rui Zhang & G.M. Muell.
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- Scientific name
- Cantharellus chicagoensis
- Author
- Leacock, J. Riddell, Rui Zhang & G.M. Muell.
- Common names
Chicago chanterelle- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Cantharellales
- Family
- Hydnaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-03-19
- IUCN Red List Category
- LC
- Assessors
- Noah Siegel (25 Prospect Hill Road, Royalston, MA 01368, US / Global Fungus Assessment)
- Reviewers
- Anders Dahlberg (Swedish Species Information Centre, Uppsala / IUCN SSC Cup-fungus, Truffle and Ally Specialist Group)
Assessment Notes
The content on this page is fetched from The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species: https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/198622834/198623653
Justification
Cantharellus chicagoensis occurs over a widespread area, in hardwood forests across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic USA. Data to estimate population trends is lacking, but based on the available data it can be inferred that it is a common and widespread species, occurring in a stable habitat. Therefore, it is assessed as Least Concern (LC).Taxonomic notes
Cantharellus chicagoensis was described from collections made in the vicinity of Chicago, Illinois, USA (Leacock et al. 2016). Previously it would have been referred to as Cantharellus cibarius, a European species not known to occur in North America.Geographic range
Being recently-described (Leacock et al. 2016), the distribution of Cantharellus chicagoensis remains poorly known. Currently it is known from the lower Midwest of USA, (Iowa, southern Wisconsin and Illinois east into western New York, south to as least southern Ohio and Indiana), but is likely more widespread than records currently indicate.Population and Trends
The range of Cantharellus chicagoensis covers a wide area, in hardwood forests across the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic USA. Data to indicate population trends are lacking, but based on the available data (Leacock et al. 2016, iNaturalist 2021), it can be inferred that it is a common and widespread species, occurring in a stable habitat.
Population Trend: Stable