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Ganoderma pfeifferi Bres., 1889 (Beeswax Bracket)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Ganoderma pfeifferi	Fruitbody	4 October 2003	Berks	England	9	5
Ganoderma pfeifferi	Fruitbody	17 April 1987	North Wiltshire	England	3

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ainsworth, M., 2004 (Colour photograph)	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs
Mattock, G., 2001	Notes on British Ganoderma species - emphasising the annual species and G. carnosum

Ganoderma pfeifferi 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)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

Ganoderma
(a genus of bracket fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Ganoderma pfeifferi is associated with:

fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead stump	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]
fruitbody	Quercus coccinea - Scarlet Oak (Fagaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [parasitic then saprobic]

Associated with Ganoderma pfeifferi:

Ganoderma pfeifferi may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)

BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

Ganoderma
(a genus of bracket fungi)

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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