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Inonotus hispidus (Bull.) P. Karst., 1880 (Shaggy Bracket)

Notes (MWS)

A large, soft, shaggy, brown bracket fungus which is often found during the summer and autumn on trunks of trees, especially Ash (*Fraxinus*) and Apple (*Malus*)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon	Summary	Date	Vice-county	Country
Inonotus hispidus	Fruitbody	28 September 2002	Berks	England	3
Inonotus hispidus	Fruitbody	15 August 1981	North Wiltshire	England	7
Inonotus hispidus	Fruitbody	26 September 1975	Mid-west Yorkshire	England	2

Suggested Literature

General Works

Barclay, M.V.L., 2005

Interesting Insecta Assemblage reared from the Bracket Fungus Inonotus hispidus (Bull. ex Fr.) Karst From Hyde Park, Middlesex

Inonotus hispidus 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)

Inonotus
(a genus of bracket fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Inonotus hispidus is associated with:

fruitbody	Sophora japonica - a cultivated tree (Fabaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Platanus - planes (Platanaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Malus - apples (Rosaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Sorbus torminalis - Wild Service-tree (Rosaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Tilia - limes (Tiliaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Ulmus - elms (Ulmaceae)	fruitbody parasitises live trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Sophora japonica - a cultivated tree (Fabaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
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
fruitbody	Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Platanus - planes (Platanaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Malus - apples (Rosaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Sorbus torminalis - Wild Service-tree (Rosaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Tilia - limes (Tiliaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody	Ulmus - elms (Ulmaceae)	fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk	Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Inonotus hispidus:

	basidiome (decaying)	decaying basidiome is decayed by sclerotium	Collybia cookei - Splitpea Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
	basidiome (mummified)	mummified basidiome is decayed by sclerotium	Collybia cookei - Splitpea Shanklet (Agaricales: Tricholomataceae)		Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Inonotus hispidus 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

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