Cantharellopsis

Taxobox | name = Cantharellopsis
regnum = Fungi
subregnum = Dikarya
phylum = Basidiomycota
subphylum = Agaricomycotina
classis = Agaricomycetes
ordo = Hymenochaetales
familia = Repetobasidiaceae
genus = "Cantharellopsis"
subdivision_ranks = speciesA tan to whitish colored bryophilous monotypic agaric genus [http://www.swefungi.se/PAGES_AC/Cantharellopsis_prescotii.html] in the Hymenochaetales that has a form intermediate between an "Omphalina" and a chanterelle ("Cantharellus") because of its forked, fold-like lamellae [cite journal | author=Kuyper, T.W.|year=1986| title=Generic delimitation in European omphalinoid Tricholomataceae. La Famiglia delle Tricholomataceae. Atti del Convegno Internazionale de 10-15 settembre 1984|journal=Atti del Centro Studi per la Fora Mediterranea| volume=6| pages=83–104] [cite journal | author=Redhead, S.A. "et al." |year=2002a | title=Phylogeny of agarics: partial systematics solutions for bryophilous omphalinoid agarics outside of the Agaricales (euagarics)| journal=Mycotaxon | volume=82 | pages=151–168] [cite journal | author=Redhead, S.A. "et al." |year=2002b | title=Phylogeny of agarics: partial systematics solutions for core omphalinoid genera in the Agaricales (euagarics)| journal=Mycotaxon | volume=83 | pages=19–57] cite journal | author=Dentinger, B.T.M. & McLaughlin, D.J.' |year=2006| title=Reconstructing the Clavariaceae using nuclear large subunit rDNA sequences and a new genus segregated from "Clavaria"| journal=Mycologia | volume=98 | issue=5 | pages=746–762| doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.5.746] . It inhabits moss on calcareous soils in temperate regions of Northern Hemisphere. Phylogenetically related agarics are in the genera "Contumyces", "Gyroflexus", "Loreleia", "Rickenella" and "Blasiphalia", as well as the stipitate-stereoid genera "Cyphellostereum" and "Cotylidia"cite journal | author=Larsson, K.-H. "et al." |year=2006 [2007] | title=Hymenochaetales: a molecular phylogeny for the hymenochaetoid clade| journal=Mycologia | volume=98 | issue=6 | pages=926–936 | doi=10.3852/mycologia.98.6.926] and the clavaroid genus, "Alloclavaria".

Etymology

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

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