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Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karst., 1880 (Big Smoky Bracket)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos
Bjerkandera adusta Fruitbody 8 May 2004 Cambridge England 4
Bjerkandera adusta Fruitbody 14 December 1975 Surrey England 3
Bjerkandera adusta Fruitbody 14 December 1975 North Hampshire England 5

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Legon, N.W., 2004 Profiles of Fungi: 135. Bjerkandera adusta

Bjerkandera adusta 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)
POLYPORALES
(polypores)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Bjerkandera adusta is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Fagus - beeches (Fagaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead or dying wood UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on wounded trunk UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Broadleaved trees - Broadleaved, Frondose Or Deciduous Trees fruitbody is saprobic on dead or dying wood UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Araucaria araucana - Monkey Puzzle (Araucariaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Cupressus - a genus of cypresses (Cupressaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Thuja - red cedars (Cupressaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Picea - spruces (Pinaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinus - pines (Pinaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Taxus baccata - Yew (Taxaceae) fruitbody is saprobic on dead, decayed wood UK/Ireland Minor Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Associated with Bjerkandera adusta:

Photos bracket (old) old bracket is parasitised by Cladobotryum anamorph Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
Photos bracket (old) old bracket is parasitised by subiculate perithecium Hypomyces aurantius - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998
Photos fruitbody fruitbody is parasitised by perithecium Melanospora lagenaria - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Ceratostomataceae) Major Ellis, M.B. & J.P., 1998

Bjerkandera adusta 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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