Cantharellus guyanensis
Cantharellus guyanensis. Photo: Wilson, A. W., Aime, M. C., Dierks, J., Mueller, G. M., & Henkel, T. W. (2012). Cantharellaceae of Guyana I: new species, combinations and distribution records of Craterellus and a synopsis of known taxa. Mycologia, 104(6), 1466–1477. doi:10.3852/11-412
Cantharellus guyanensis is an agaricoid gregarious species, found growing in humic mats and white sand soils in Dicymbe and Aldina dominated forests in Guyana, and in restinga areas. The species possibly forms associations with Nyctaginaceae and Polygonaceae. There are records for the species in the Brazilian Amazon, Venezuela, Colombia, Guyana, and French Guyana. In Brazil, there are 32 occurrences, all of them located in restinga areas of the Atlantic Forest, in northeastern and southern Brazil. The species is considered edible, even though it is not consumed by local communities, it has the potential to be commercialized. C. guyanensis is threatened mainly by deforestation, fires, mining, and real state speculation. Even with these threats, the species population is stable and there’s no decline to be met in the future, making C. guyanensis Least Concern based on the IUCN criteria.
C. guyanensis distribution map. https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/172740593/172861197.
References
- Neves, M.A. & Cardoso, J.S. 2020. Cantharellus guyanensis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2020: e.T172740593A172861197. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T172740593A172861197.en. Downloaded on 10 March 2021.
