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Amylostereum areolatum (Chaillet) Boidin, 1958 (a resupinate fungus)

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Legon, N.W. & Pegler, D.N., 2002 Profiles of Fungi: 127: Amylostereum areolatum

Amylostereum areolatum may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)
Amylostereum
(a genus of resupinate fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Amylostereum areolatum is associated with:

fruitbody Abies - firs (Pinaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on decayed wood Foreign Legon, N.W. & Pegler, D.N., 2002
Photos fruitbody Picea - spruces (Pinaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on old stump UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Picea - spruces (Pinaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on decayed wood UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Amylostereum areolatum:

conidia conidia are spread by mycangial pouches of female Sirex noctilio - Lesser Horntail Wasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005 [conidiospores carried in specially-evolved mycangial pouches and released through the ovipositor during egg-laying]
imperfect state (wood rot) wood rot imperfect state is food source of larva Sirex noctilio - Lesser Horntail Wasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005

Amylostereum areolatum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Legon, N.W. & Pegler, D.N., 2002 Profiles of Fungi: 127: Amylostereum areolatum
Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005 Fungi

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