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Cantharellus melanoxerosPhoto: Graham MattockBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Fruit body; saffron-yellow to lilac; shallowly funnel-shaped with gills replaced by forked ridges; on bare soil with beech or mixed hardwoods; solitary or gregarious, often in fused groups.Dimensions: Cap 2-4cm dia; stem 3-5cm tall x 0.4-1.2cm dia. Cap: Saffron-yellow sometimes with lilaceous tinges; convex when young, later flattened to slightly infundibuliform with undulating incurved margin, surface finely tomentose or scurfy.Lower hymenial surface bearing irregularly forked ridges, lilaceous-rose, decurrent and distinctly bounded; flesh: whitish, lilaceous tinged in the stem. Stem: Whitish when young then lilaceous-rose, cylindrical, merging with the cap, hollow when old. |
Spores: Hyaline, smooth, oval to ellipsoid, with granular content, 9.5-12.0 x 6.5-7.5.5µm. Basidia 4 spored; cystidia absent. Odour: Not distinctive. Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Late Summer to Autumn. |
| Qualifying criterion: 4.7: very rare European endemic species |
| Justification: threatened in 3 out of 7 countries in which it appears on official Red Lists; not recorded pre-1960 so decline not possible to reveal but generally agreed |
| Threats: air pollution, compaction, eutrophication, felling of host trees, overgrowth |
| Action Required: Site protection and monitoring against habitat loss and degradation; improvement of site management |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records
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Total records: 17 |
| Earliest recording: 1982 | |
| Latest recording: 2006 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 3(4); 7(1); 8(2); 11(7); 17(1); 18(1); 97(1) | |
| Pre-1960: 0 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 17 records |