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| The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland |
Formerly Coriolaceae
Morphology. The fruit-bodies producing basidia and basidiospores; persistent; leathery, attached laterally and bracket-shaped; small to medium sized; in Bjerkandera adusta, 2–4 cm across. The hymenium porose. The hymenial layer not readily separable from the supporting flesh. The basidia ‘unmodified’. The basidiospores ballistosporic; hyaline.
The hyphal walls lamellate, with a thin, electron-dense outer layer and a relatively thick, electron-transparent inner layer. The hyphae dimitic. The generative hyphae not inflated.
Chemical reactions. The context hyphae not xanthochroic.
Ecology. Saprophytic, or parasitic and saprophytic. The fruit-bodies on dead wood and on living wood. Associated with broad-leaved trees and with conifers (?). The fruit-bodies on trunks and branches of living trees and on dead trees and fallen logs. On trunks of various tree species. Found in coniferous woodland (?), in broad-leaved woodland and in mixed woodland.
Representation in Britain and Ireland. 25 species in Britain; Aurantiporus, Bjerkandera, Ceriporia, Ceriporiopsis, Climacocystis, Hapalopilus, Ischnoderma, Leptoporus, Spongipellis.
World representation. 78 species; genera 10. “Widespread”.
Classification. Basidiomycota; Basidiomycetes; Agaricomycetidae; Polyporales.
Illustrations. • Bjerkandera adusta (LH). HAPALOPILACEAE. Bjerkandera adusta. Sunesen & Dahlstrøm, in Lange & Hora (1965). • Spongipellis spumeus, with other Polyporales (Berkeley). HAPALOPILACEAE. 4, Spongipellis spumeus (Sowerby) Pat. GANODERMATACEAE. 2, Ganoderma lucidum (Curtis) P. Karst. POLYPORACEAE. 1, Polyporus tuberaster (Jacq.) Fr.; 3, Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.) Bondartsev & Singer; 6, Skeletocutis vulgaris (Fr.) Niemela & Y.C. Dai. MERIPILACEAE. 5, Rigidoporus ulmarius (Sowerby) Imazeki. From Berkeley (1860).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. The families of mushrooms and toadstools represented in Britain and Ireland. Version: 5th August 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
