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Aleurodiscus amorphus (Pers.) J. Schröt., 1888 (a basidiomycete)

Suggested Literature

Aleurodiscus amorphus 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)
RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)
Aleurodiscus
(a genus of basidiomycete fungi)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

Aleurodiscus amorphus is associated with:

Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody grows on dead branch (attached) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Pinopsida - conifers fruitbody grows on dying branch (attached) UK/Ireland Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Abies - firs (Pinaceae) fruitbody grows on dying branch (attached) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
fruitbody Abies - firs (Pinaceae) fruitbody grows on dead branch (attached) UK/Ireland Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Photos fruitbody Picea - spruces (Pinaceae) fruitbody grows on dying branch (attached) UK/Ireland Foreign Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Eriksson, J., & Ryvarden, L., 1973
Photos fruitbody Picea - spruces (Pinaceae) fruitbody grows on dead branch (attached) UK/Ireland Foreign Major Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005
Eriksson, J., & Ryvarden, L., 1973

Associated with Aleurodiscus amorphus:

hymenium, fruitbody (live) live hymenium of fruitbody is parasitised by basidiome Tremella simplex - a brain fungus (Tremellales: Tremellaceae) Foreign Eriksson, J., & Ryvarden, L., 1973
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005

Aleurodiscus amorphus may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

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

References

Eriksson, J., & Ryvarden, L., 1973 The Corticiaceae of Northern Europe: 2 Aleurodiscus - Confertobasidium
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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