The correct name for the most commonly harvested chanterelle in western North America (western BC, WA, and OR, and northwestern CA) is C. formosus and not C. cibarius. The type locality for Cantharellus formosus is Long Beach, Pacific Rim National Park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, and not Barkley Sound. Fresh topotypical material was gathered for morphological and molecular characterization. A less commonly harvested western chanterelle is Cantharellus cibarius var. roseocanus var. nov.