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Cantharellus betularum Voitk & Thorn
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- Scientific name
- Cantharellus betularum
- Author
- Voitk & Thorn
- Common names
- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Cantharellales
- Family
- Hydnaceae
- Assessment status
- Published
- Assessment date
- 2021-03-19
- IUCN Red List Category
- DD
- Assessors
- Siegel, N.
- 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/198622579/198624903
Justification
Cantharellus betularum is a recently described species of chanterelle from Newfoundland, Canada. It is currently known from three localities, despite years of surveying the fungi of Newfoundland and Labrador. Suitable habitat is widespread, and not undergoing any large scale decline. Until this species is better known, and attempts have been made to locate C. betularum in similar habitat in other parts of north-east North America, this species is assessed as Data Deficient (DD).Taxonomic notes
Cantharellus betularum was first reported as North American records of C. amethysteus (Thorn et al. 2017), before being described as a distinct species (Thorn et al. 2020).Geographic range
This species is currently known from three localities in the Bay of Islands region of western Newfoundland, Canada (Thorn et al. 2020).Population and Trends
Cantharellus betularum is a recently-described species, currently known from three localities in Newfoundland, Canada. Data to assess population size and trends are lacking. Suitable habitat is widespread but to date, despite years of work on the fungi of Newfoundland and Labrador, it has not been found outside a small area on the west coast of Newfoundland.
Population Trend: unknown