Cantharellopsis

Cantharellopsis is a tan- to whitish-colored bryophilous monotypic genus in the Hymenochaetales. The fruit bodies of the single species Cantharellopsis prescotii has a form intermediate between an Omphalina and a chanterelle (Cantharellus) because of its forked, fold-like gills.^[1][2][3][4] It inhabits moss on calcareous soils in temperate regions of Europe.^[5] Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera Contumyces, Gyroflexus, Loreleia, Rickenella and Blasiphalia, as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera Muscinupta and Cotylidia^[6] and the clavarioid genus, Alloclavaria.^[4]

Cantharellopsis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Hymenochaetales
Family:	Repetobasidiaceae
Genus:	Cantharellopsis Kuyper (1986)
Type species
Cantharellopsis prescotii (Weinm.) Kuyper (1986)

Etymology

Cantharellopsis is named in reference to its vague similarity to the genus Cantharellus and means, Cantharellus-like.

See also

• Fungi portal