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Cerrena unicolor (Bull.) Murrill, 1903 (a bracket fungus)

Suggested Literature

Cerrena unicolor 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)
POLYPORALES
(polypores)
POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Cerrena unicolor is associated with:

Photos basidiome Acer campestre - Field Maple (Aceraceae) basidiome is saprobic on dead, old stump Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Acer campestre - Field Maple (Aceraceae) basidiome is saprobic on deadfallen, dead trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore, Great Maple (Aceraceae) basidiome is saprobic on fallen, dead trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Acer pseudoplatanus - Sycamore, Great Maple (Aceraceae) basidiome is saprobic on dead, old stump Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) basidiome is saprobic on fallen, dead trunk Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) basidiome is saprobic on dead, old stump Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos basidiome Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees basidiome is saprobic on dead wood Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Cerrena unicolor:

conidia conidia are spread by mycangial pouches of female Tremex columba - a woodwasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) Foreign Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005 [conidiospores carried in specially-evolved mycangial pouches and released through the ovipositor during egg-laying]
imperfect state (wood rot) wood rot imperfect state is food source of larva Tremex columba - a woodwasp (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) Foreign Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005

Cerrena unicolor may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
POLYPORALES
(polypores)
POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

References

Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota
Spooner, B. & Roberts, P., 2005 Fungi

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