Mushrooms
Cantharellus vaginatus
A chanterelle species recorded from Yunnan, China, and Sikkim, India; its reported food use is provisional, and this page cannot identify a wild mushroom or assess its safety.
Overview
Cantharellus vaginatus is an ectomycorrhizal forest fungus, known in English as the Asian chanterelle. It was described from Dehong, Yunnan, and its original description lists specimens from markets in Chuxiong, Dati and Qujing.
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Markets and food use
The Pu'er ethnomycology study lists the species among edible wild mushrooms marketed in Yunnan. In the study's table, read through a search result, the market marking could not be confirmed with certainty, so treat the food-use record as provisional.
No source reached in this session describes cooking practice, local names or traditional medicine for this species.
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Range and status
The IUCN Red List gives its range as Yunnan and Sikkim, India, and assesses the species as Near Threatened.
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Confusion with other yellow chanterelles
Yellow chanterelles sold in Yunnan markets were long assumed to be Cantharellus cibarius. A 2021 study in Cryptogamie Mycologie found that most of them are C. yunnanensis instead. Market records made before that work may therefore be misassigned, and a market name alone does not establish which chanterelle is on sale.
Safety
The catalogue keeps its regional identification as published, and states that contemporary taxonomy and local safety still need species-level review. Nothing on this page is an identification or a safety assessment.
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BioStor / Internet ArchiveTaxonomy · Market specimens
Protologue of Cantharellus vaginatus (BioStor 285770)Described from Dehong, Yunnan
Specimens from Chuxiong, Dati and Qujing markets
Cited in: Overview
Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (BioMed Central)Food use
Ethnomycological study of wild mushrooms in Pu'er Prefecture, table 4Listed as edible and marketed in Yunnan (provisional)
Cited in: Markets and food use
IUCN Red ListStatus · Range · Use and trade
IUCN Red List: Cantharellus vaginatusKnown range reported as Yunnan, China and Sikkim, India
Assessed as Near Threatened
The assessment gives no use or trade information
Cited in: Range and status
Cryptogamie, MycologieTaxonomy
New insights into the taxonomy of the genus Cantharellus in ChinaYunnan yellow chanterelles mostly C. yunnanensis
Cited in: Confusion with other yellow chanterelles
Chinese Academy of SciencesTaxonomy
Research news on Yunnan chanterellesMarket yellow chanterelles reidentified
Cited in: Confusion with other yellow chanterelles
Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (supplied)Food use
Supplied Pu'er ethnomycology study (not opened, publisher login redirect)Catalogue record and caution
Cited in: Safety