Candelabrochaete

The genus was circumscribed by French mycologist Jacques Boidin in 1970. He originally included two species, C. langloisii, and the type, C. africana.^[1]

Similar to the genus Phanerochaete, Candelabrochaete features simple septa in the subicular hyphae and at the base of the basidia, and hyaline, thin-walled, nonamyloid spores. Several features distinguish Candelabrochaete from Phanerochaete. These include small, cylindrical to club-shaped (clavate) basidia, septate cystidia, a loosely interwoven subiculum (a mat of hyphae from which the fruitbody arises), and a loosely organized hymenium. This latter characteristic gives a farinaceous to woolly appearance to the fruitbodies.^[2]

As of May 2018^[update], Index Fungorum accepts 12 species in Candelabrochaete:^[3]

• Candelabrochaete adnata Hjortstam (1995)^[4] – Brazil
• Candelabrochaete africana Boidin (1970)^[1] – Africa
• Candelabrochaete cirrata Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1986)^[5] – Argentina; British Virgin Islands; Brunei; Ghana; Kenya; Taiwan
• Candelabrochaete dispar Hjortstam & Ryvarden (1986)^[5] – Argentina
• Candelabrochaete eruciformis (G.Cunn.) Stalpers & P.K.Buchanan (1991)^[6]
• Candelabrochaete langloisii (Pat.) Boidin (1970)^[1]
• Candelabrochaete macaronesica M.Dueñas, Tellería & Melo (2008)^[7] – Faial Island; Madeira
• Candelabrochaete magnahypha (Burt) Burds. (1984)^[2]
• Candelabrochaete mexicana (Burt) P.Roberts (2000)^[8] – Cameroon; Venezuela
• Candelabrochaete neocaledonica Duhem & Buyck (2011)^[9] – New Caledonia
• Candelabrochaete simulans Hjortstam (1995)^[4] – Thailand
• Candelabrochaete verruculosa Hjortstam (1983)^[10] – Africa; Asia; Europe