BioImages (UK)
BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)
BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)
AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)
RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)
AURISCALPIACEAE
(a family of basidiomycetes)
Lentinellus
(cockleshell fungi)
Lentinellus ursinus
(Bear Cockleshell)
Lentinellus ursinus
is also a member of:
Macromycetes
(via Russulales)
Fungi sl.
Lower Plants
(via Fungi ss.)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Lentinellus ursinus (Fr.) Kühner, 1926 (Bear Cockleshell)

1992 (Provisional) Red Data List Endangered
2007 (Draft) Red Data List NT

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Ainsworth, M., 2004 (Colour photograph) Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs
Overall, A., 2005 Lentinellus ursinus & L. vulpinus make their first recorded appearance in Epping Forest
Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., 1989 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid Agarics

Lentinellus ursinus may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)		 Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)		 FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)		 BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)		 BASIDIOMYCETES
(spore droppers)		 AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)		 RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)
Macromycetes (via Russulales) Fungi sl.

BioInfo BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 feeding and other relationships of Lentinellus ursinus (Bear Cockleshell)

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