Cantharellus cibarius Fr.

(Figs 5-6)

In Systema Mycologicum (Lundae) 1: 318 (1821).

Agaricus chantarellus L., Species Plantarum 2: 1171 (1753). — Merulius chantarellus (L.) Scop., Flora Carniolica, ed. 2, 2: 461 (1772) ‘‘ cantharellus’’. — Cantharellus flavescens Lam., Encyclopedie 1 (2): 694 (1785) [nom. nov. based on Agaricus chantarellus L.]. — Cantharellus edulis Pers., Neues Magazin für die Botanik 1: 106 (1794) [nom. illeg. Art. 52.1]. — Cantharellus vulgaris Gray, Natural Arrangement of British Plants 1: 636 (1821) [nom. illeg. Art. 52.1]. — Craterellus cibarius (Fr.: Fr.) Quél., Flore mycologique de la France et des pays limitrophes: 37 (1888). — Alectorolophoides cibarius (Fr.: Fr.) Earle, Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden 5: 407 (1909). — Cantharellus cibarius f. pallidus R. Schulz in Michaël, Führer für Pilzfreunde 1: no. 82 (1923). — Cantharellus cibarius var. inodorus Velen., Novitates Mycologicae: 36 (1939). — Cantharellus cibarius var. atlanticus Romagn., Docums Mycology 25 (98-100): 421 (1995). — Cantharellus parviluteus Fern. Sas., Pérez-de-Greg. & Eyssart., Bulletin de la Société mycologique de France 119 (3-4): 262 (2003).

MYCOBANK. — 201371.

NEOTYPE. — United Kingdom, England, Devon, Bovey Tracey, Tradbere Down, on the ground near Betula, 3.X.1992, N. W. Legon, K (M)22132. (Olariaga et al. 2016).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Tuan County, Jilin Prov., China. Changbai Mountain Natural Reserve, 7.VIII.2010, Wang XH2580, (HKAS [HKAS 58234]).

HABIT, HABITAT AND DISTRIBUTION. — Single to caespitose, forming ectomycorrhizae with Pinus koraiensis or Quercus mongolica. Present in Jilin Province, northeastern China.

DESCRIPTION OF THE CHINESE COLLECTION

Basidiomata

Fleshy, medium-sized.

Pileus

Convex-planar, later becoming more or less planar with age; margin incurved or straight, regular or folded, smooth, thin; with surface smooth to minutely pubescent, orange-yellow (3A7, 3A8) to bright yellow at the margin (1A7, 2A6).

Context

Solid.

Hymenophore

With well-defined gill-like folds, up to 3 mm, decurrent, forking and anastomosing only near the cap margin, pale yellow to light yellow (3A2, 3A3).

Stipe

Solid, subcylindrical tapering downwards, concolorous with the hymenophore with a yellow tint (2A6).

Odor

Mild, agreeable, sometimes fruity.

Taste

Mild, agreeable.

Spore print

No color.

Basidiospores

Oblong to reniform, smooth, colorless, and hyaline, thinwalled, 8-10 × 5-6 µm. Xm= 9.14 × 5.08 µm, Q = 1.60-2.0.

Basidia

80-105 × 7-9 (-10) µm, long and slender, 5-6 sterigmata.

Cystidia

Absent.

Hymenophoral trama

Composed of intermingled filamentous hyphae 3.0-5.0 µm diam., colorless, thin-walled in an irregular arrangement.

Pileipellis

Mainly of the cutis type, in some areas of the surface, the terminal hyphae may be erect, forming an intricate trichoderm and cluster of hyphae. Hyphae of the pileipellis 4.0-6.0 µm diam., intermingled in a compact (cutis) or slightly loose (trichoderm) arrangement, cylindrical, hyaline to yellowish, often with light yellow contents in some, decidedly light yellow-colored, slightly thick-walled (<1 µm thick); distinctive terminal elements 28-76 × 5-7 µm broad, thick-walled (1 µm thick), smooth, hyaline to light yellow.

Pileus trama

Composed of cylindrical to inflated hyphae, 4-6 µm diam., slightly thick-walled (<1 µm thick), hyaline, yellowish in mass.

Clamp connections

Present in all tissues examined.