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Polyporus melanopus (Pers.) Fr., 1821 (a bracket fungus)

Suggested Literature

Polyporus melanopus 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

Polyporus melanopus is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Betula - birches (Betulaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed root Minor 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, decayed root Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on calcareous soil]
Photos fruitbody Quercus - oaks (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed root Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Sorbus aucuparia - Rowan, Mountain Ash (Rosaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed root Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Polyporus melanopus:

Polyporus melanopus may be associated with taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

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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