:''As established by Cossmann in 1885, ''Goossensia'' is a mollusc genus in family

Carditidae Carditidae is a family of marine bivalve clams of the order Carditida, which was long included in the Venerida. They are the type taxon of the superfamily Carditoidea. Carditidae is a neglected and poorly classified family. It has six ...

. As invalidly described by Ragonot in 1891, it refers to the snout moth genus '' Macna. ''Goossensia'' is a fungal

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

in the family

Cantharellaceae The Cantharellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cantharellales. The family contains the chanterelles and related species, a group of fungi that superficially resemble agarics (gilled mushrooms) but have smooth, wrinkled, or gill-like hy ...

. It is a

monotypic In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon. A monotypic species is one that does not include subspecies or smaller, infraspecific taxa. In the case of genera, the term "unisp ...

genus, and contains one species, ''Goossensia cibarioides'', found in the Congo. The genus was circumscribed by the Belgian mycologist Paul Heinemann in 1958. ''G. cibarioides'' is a bright yellow-orange mushroom that somewhat resembles the Fragrant Chanterelle ('' Cantharellus odoratus''), but has a very watery stipe. It is edible.

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q5584155 Cantharellaceae Edible fungi Fungi of Africa Monotypic Basidiomycota genera