Arctic Life/Arctic Fungi/Basidiomycetes/Order Agaricales/Cantharellula umbonata

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Cantharellula umbonata

NCBI Taxonomy ID 181972 MycoBank ID 281056 GBIF 2532395

Cantharellula umbonata
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Cantharellula umbonata.
NE (IUCN3.1)
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C. umbonata
Binomial name
Cantharellula umbonata
(Johann Friedrich Gmelin) Rolf Singer (1936)
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Map of cantharellula umbonata georeference records.
Synonyms
  • Merulius umbonatus J.F.Gmel. (1792)

Found in beds of the moss Polytrichium, this species is the sole representative of its genus in North America. It is absent from Iceland and Greenland, but occurs in the Yukon and as far south as Alabama and Mexico.