Cantharellus tabernensis is a small chanterelle which occurs in Slash Pine forests on the Gulf Coast of USA.

Buyck et al. (2010) state Cantharellus tabernensis “is a very common and abundant chanterelle around the Gulf and we collected it frequently in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi”. 

Based on this, and the fact that it’s habitat is widespread and not under threat, I recommend listing as Least Concern (LC).

Cantharellus tabernensis was described from Mississippi, USA (Feibelman et al. 1996).

Cantharellus tabernensis is a small chanterelle which occurs in Slash Pine forests on the Gulf Coast of USA.

Buyck et al. (2010) state Cantharellus tabernensis “is a very common and abundant chanterelle around the Gulf and we collected it frequently in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi”. 

Based on this, and the fact that it’s habitat is widespread and not under threat, I recommend listing as Least Concern (LC).

Gulf States of the USA; from eastern Texas to Florida.

Populations occurs across the Gulf States, in the coastal plains mixed pine forests. There are ~25 locations reported on MyCoPortal (2021), but it is believed to be highly under reported. Buyck et al. (2010) state Cantharellus tabernensis “is a very common and abundant chanterelle around the Gulf and we collected it frequently in Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi”. 

Data to fully assess trends of this species is lacking, but the habitat it occurs is widespread and stable.

Ectomycorrhizal; often fruiting in gregarious patches on well drained and sandy soil, in mixed woods, especially near mature slash pine (Pinus elliottii) (Feibelman et al.1996, Buyck et al. 2010). Fruiting in late spring and summer.

No specific threats have been identified with regards to this species.

No specific conservation actions is needed with regards to this species.

Most work on Cantharellus in the southeast USA has been done in Texas and the western portion of the Gulf States. Better documentation of Cantharellus in the eastern portion of the Gulf is needed, which in turn would give a better understanding of range of this, and other southeast species.

This species is edible, but apparently rarely collected because of its small size.

Buyck, B., Lewis, D.P., Eyssartier, G. and Hofstetter, V. 2010. Cantharellus quercophilus sp. nov. and its comparison to other small, yellow or brown American chanterelles. Cryptogamie Mycologie 31: 17–33

Feibelman, T.P., Bennett, J.W. and Cibula, W.G. 1996. Cantharellus tabernensis: A new species from the southeastern United States. Mycologia. 88 (2): 295–301.

iNaturalist. 2021. http://www.inaturalist.org. Accessed on March 04.

Mushroom Observer. 2021. http://www.mushroomoberver.org. Accessed on March 04.

MyCoPortal. 2021. http://mycoportal.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on March 04.