BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)
Botryobasidium aureum Parmasto, 1965 (a resupinate fungus)
| Notes (MWS) | Forms small pale gold tufts on very rotten broadleaved wood. Microscopically it has chains of limoniform conidia. |
Records (and photo sets)
| Taxon | Summary | Date | Vice-county | Country |  |
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| Botryobasidium aureum | 20 May 2004 | South Devon | England | 1 | 1 | ||
| Botryobasidium aureum | 24 September 2000 | Oxon | England | 4 | 4 | 4 | |
| Botryobasidium aureum | 23 October 1978 | East Sussex | England | 2 |
Suggested Literature
Identification Works
| Henrici, A., 2000 (Photograph) | Introduction to Corticioid Fungi |
Botryobasidium aureum may also be covered by literature listed under:
Feeding and other inter-species relationships
Botryobasidium aureum is associated with:
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Ilex aquifolium - Holly (Aquifoliaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Betula - birches (Betulaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Corylus - hazels (Betulaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | 
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Sorbus - whitebeams (Rosaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Pinus - pines (Pinaceae) | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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Alysidium anamorph, colony | Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees | effuse colony of Alysidium anamorph is saprobic on rotten wood | Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | |
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fruitbody | Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) | fruitbody is saprobic on decayed wood |
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Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [esp. large, fallen trunks, logs or old stumps] |
Associated with Botryobasidium aureum:
Botryobasidium aureum may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level
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MYCETEAE (fungi, moulds and lichens) |
BASIDIOMYCETES (spore droppers) |
Botryobasidium (a genus of resupinate fungi) |
References
| Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1997 | Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook |
| Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 | Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota |
