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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)
Scytinostroma portentosum
(Mothball Crust)
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BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Scytinostroma portentosum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk, 1956 (Mothball Crust)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Rare

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ainsworth, M., 2004 (Colour photograph) Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs

Scytinostroma portentosum 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)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Scytinostroma portentosum is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large) 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 bark 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, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on underside of log]
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead bark Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on underside of log]
Photos fruitbody Fraxinus - ashes (Oleaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large) Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 [on underside of log]
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead bark Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Salix - willows (Salicaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large) Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Scytinostroma portentosum:

Scytinostroma portentosum 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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