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Polyozellus

Polyozellus
A bluish-purple fungus made of a cluster of fan- or funnel-shaped ruffled segments fused at a common base. Specimen is growing in a bed of green moss.
Polyozellus multiplex
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Thelephoraceae
Genus: Polyozellus
Murrill (1910)
Species: P. multiplex
Binomial name
Polyozellus multiplex
(Underw.) Murrill (1910)
Synonyms

Cantharellus multiplex Underw. (1899)
Phyllocarbon yasudai Lloyd (1921)
Craterellus multiplex (Underw.) Shope (1938)
Thelephora multiplex (Underw.) S.Kawam. (1954)

Polyozellus multiplex
Mycological characteristics
ridges on hymenium
cap is infundibuliform
hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable
stipe is bare
spore print is white
ecology is mycorrhizal
edibility: edible

Cantharellus multiplex Underw. (1899)
Phyllocarbon yasudai Lloyd (1921)
Craterellus multiplex (Underw.) Shope (1938)
Thelephora multiplex (Underw.) S.Kawam. (1954)

Polyozellus is a fungal genus in the family Thelephoraceae, a grouping of mushrooms known collectively as the leathery earthfans. A monotypic genus, it contains the single species Polyozellus multiplex, first described in 1899, and commonly known as the blue chanterelle, the clustered blue chanterelle, or, in Alaska, the black chanterelle. The distinctive fruit body of this species comprises blue- to purple-colored clusters of vase- or spoon-shaped caps with veiny wrinkles on the undersurface that run down the length of the stem.

Polyozellus has had a varied taxonomic history and has been reclassified several times at both the family and genus level. The range of Polyozellus includes North America and eastern Asia, where P. multiplex may be found growing on the ground in coniferous forests, usually under spruce and fir trees. It is an edible species, and has been harvested for commercial purposes. Polyozellus multiplex contains the bioactive compound polyozellin, shown to have various physiological properties, including suppressive effects on stomach cancer.


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