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Peniophora quercina (Pers.) Cooke, Grevillea 8(no. 45): 20 (1879)

Auricularia corticalis Bull., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris) 6: tab. 285, fig. 1 (1790)
Thelephora quercina Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 573 (1801)
Corticium quercinum (Pers.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 653 (1838) [1836-1838]
Peniophora pezizoides Massee, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 25: 141 (1890)

Habitat: On dead attached branches, usually of Quercus spp., rarely on Fagus and rarely on Betula spp.

Notes: Very common and widespread.

Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: !; Isle of Man: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 90038; Scotland: K(M) 36951; Wales: K(M) 36962 (very old record); NI: K(M) 36949; Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 36957

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 240-241
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 150, pl. 153
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 188

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