Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Thelephora palmata (Scop.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 432 (1821)

Clavaria palmata Scop., Fl. carniol. Edn 2 (Vienna) 2: 483 (1772)
Merisma foetidum Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen): 584 (1801)
Phylacteria palmata (Scop.) Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 119 (1900)

Habitat: With Pinus spp. and Betula pendula on acidic soil.

Notes: Rarely reported but apparently widespread. Basidiomes in active growth have a strong smell, likened to 'decayed garlic' or 'sewage'.

Distribution: E: !, S: !, W: !, NI: !, ROI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 55781; Scotland: K(M) 54277

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 260-261
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 218, pl. 255
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 301

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