Fomitiporella cavicola (Kotl. & Pouzar) T. Wagner & M. Fisch.
(Cave Artist)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Fomitiporella cavicola (Cave Artist)
Family	HYMENOCHAETACEAE (a family of bracket fungi)
Order	HYMENOCHAETALES (an order of basidiomycete fungi)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of fungi)
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers, basidiomycetes)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Fomitiporella cavicola is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Hymenochaetaceae)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Identification Works

Author	Year	Title	Source
Ainsworth, A.M.	1996	Profiles of Fungi No. 74: Phellinus umbinellus (Brs.) S. Herrera & Bondartseva apud Bondartseva & S. Herrera	Mycologist Vol 10 (1): 36.
Ainsworth, M.	2004	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs	Research Reports, Report no 597, 75pp, English Nature
Ainsworth, M.	1999	Phellinus cavicola and British records previously assigned to P. umbrinellus	Mycologist Vol 13 (2): 56-57.
Fischer, M., Ainsworth, A.M. & Wagner, T.	2001	Phellinus cavicola: a species not assignable to European subgroups of Phellinus s.l.	Mycologist Vol 15 (1): 16-18.

Fomitiporella cavicola (Cave Artist) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

HYMENOCHAETACEAE
(a family of bracket fungi)

HYMENOCHAETALES
(an order of basidiomycete fungi)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers, basidiomycetes)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Fomitiporella cavicola (Cave Artist)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 12 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for Fomitiporella cavicola (Cave Artist)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

Fomitiporella cavicola is also a member of:

Identification Works

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