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Lentinellus ursinus (Fr.) Kühner, 1926 (Bear Cockleshell)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Endangered
2007 (Draft) Red Data List NT

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ainsworth, M., 2004 (Colour photograph) Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs
Overall, A., 2005 Lentinellus ursinus & L. vulpinus make their first recorded appearance in Epping Forest
Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., 1989 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid Agarics

Lentinellus ursinus 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)
Lentinellus
(cockleshell fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Lentinellus ursinus is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead stump (large) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen trunk (large) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead stump (large) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen trunk (large) Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Lentinellus ursinus:

Lentinellus ursinus may be associated with 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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