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Stereum hirsutum (Willd.) Gray, 1821 (Hairy Curtain Crust)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Stereum hirsutum 10 October 2004 West Kent England 4
Stereum hirsutum Fruitbody 26 January 1970 East Norfolk England 2

Suggested Literature

Stereum hirsutum 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)
RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Stereum hirsutum is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees and shrubs fruitbody parasitises live wood Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody parasitises live wood Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees and shrubs fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Questionable Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic then saprobic]

Associated with Stereum hirsutum:

basidiome (decayed) decayed basidiome is decayed by fruitbody Boidinia peroxydata - a basidiomycete fungus (Russulales: Stereaceae) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome basidiome is food source of plasmodium Badhamia utricularis - a slime mould (Physarales: Physaraceae) Ing, B., 1999
fruitbody (decaying) decaying fruitbody is parasitised by gregarious or scattered, erumpent or superficial perithecium Helminthosphaeria corticiorum - an ascomycete (Trichosphaeriales: Helminthosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
Photos fruitbody (live) live fruitbody is parasitised by fruitbody Tremella aurantia - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody (live) live fruitbody is parasitised by basidiome Tremella steidleri - Brown Brain (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by crowded, subiculate perithecium Melanospora caprina - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Ceratostomataceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by subiculate perithecium Hypomyces rosellus - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by Cladobotryum anamorph Hypomyces rosellus - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by subiculate perithecium Sphaerostilbella aureonitens - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by Gliocladium anamorph Sphaerostilbella aureonitens - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by scattered or gregarious perithecium Sphaerostilbella berkeleyana - a pyrenomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Stereum hirsutum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
Stereum
(a genus of resupinate and bracket fungi)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: An Identification Handbook
Ing, B., 1999 The Myxomycetes of Britain and Ireland
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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