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Phellinus nigricans (Fr.) P. Karst., 1899 (a bracket fungus)

Suggested Literature

Phellinus nigricans may 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)
Phellinus
(a genus of porecrusts and brackets)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Phellinus nigricans is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Betula - birches (Betulaceae) fruitbody parasitises live trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody parasitises live trunk Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Betula - birches (Betulaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprotrophic]

Associated with Phellinus nigricans:

Phellinus nigricans may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Phellinus
(a genus of porecrusts and brackets)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota

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