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Hypochnicium punctulatum (Cooke) J. Erikss., 1958 (a resupinate basidiomycete)

Suggested Literature

Hypochnicium punctulatum 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)
Hypochnicium
(a genus of resupinate fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Hypochnicium punctulatum is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Calluna vulgaris - Heather (Ericaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead stem Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed litter Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Trees - Broadleaved And Coniferous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed wood Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Polyporales - polypores fruitbody is saprobic on dead fruitbody Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Hypochnicium punctulatum:

is parasitised by effuse colony of Pleurophragmium dematiaceous anamorph Spadicoides xylogena - a dematiaceous anamorphic fungus (Trichosphaeriales: Helminthosphaeriaceae) Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Hypochnicium punctulatum may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

MYCETEAE
(fungi, moulds and lichens)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
POLYPORALES
(polypores)

References

Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998 Microfungi on Miscellaneous Substrates: 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

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