Polyozellus is a fungal genus in the family Thelephoraceae. It contains the single species Polyozelus multiplex, commonly known as the blue chanterelle. The genus name is derived from the Greek polyozhet, meaning many branch or branch. The species is found in North America and eastern Asia.
About Polyozellus in brief
Polyozellus is a fungal genus in the family Thelephoraceae. It contains the single species Polyozelus multiplex, commonly known as the blue chanterelle. The genus name is derived from the Greek polyozhet, meaning many branch or branch. The species is found in North America and eastern Asia. It is an edible species, and has been harvested for commercial purposes. The bioactive compound polyozellin has been shown to have various physiological properties, including suppressive effects on stomach cancer. It has been reclassified several times at both the family and genus level. The name of the genus has been changed several times, including in 1954 and 2009, both Index Fungorum and Mycologia list PolyozellUS as the specific epithet for the species. It can be found growing on the ground in coniferous forests, usually under spruce and fir trees in the U.S., Canada and Alaska. 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.
In Alaska, the fruit body is called the black chantereLle, or, in Alaska, the black Chanterel Mushroom. It was first described by botanist Lucien M. Underwood in 1899, based on a specimen found the previous year in the woods of Mount Desert, Maine. In 1920, specimens from a Japanese collection compiled by A. Yasuda were sent to mycologist Curtis Gates Lloyd, who believed the fungus to be a new species and named it Phyllocarbon yasudai. No further collections of the fungus were reported until 1937, when it was found in Quebec, Canada. In 1953, Rokuya Imazeki took into consideration differences in spore characteristics: species in the genus Cantharellus were not known to have spores that were subglobose and tuberculate like Polyozallus.
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