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Hericium coralloides (Scop.) Pers., 1794 (Coral Tooth)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Vulnerable
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
Dickson, G. & Leonard, A., 1996 (Photograph) Fungi of the New Forest - A Mycota

Hericium coralloides 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)
Hericium
(a genus of tooth fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Hericium coralloides is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody parasitises live trunk Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody parasitises live trunk Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]
Photos fruitbody Ulmus glabra - Wych Elm (Ulmaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on trunk Rare Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [weakly parasitic or saprotrophic]

Associated with Hericium coralloides:

Hericium coralloides 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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