Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Hericium cirrhatum (Pers.) Nikol., Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. USSR Plant. Crypt. Fasc. II 6: 343 (1950)

Hydnum cirrhatum Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 109 (1794)
Hydnum diversidens Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 411 (1821)
Creolophus cirrhatus (Pers.) P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 5: 42 (1879)
Hericium diversidens (Fr.) Nikol., Acta Inst. Bot. Acad. Sci. USSR Plant. Crypt. Fasc. II 6: 222 (1961)

Habitat: On dead parts of standing trees, stumps or fallen wood of broadleaved trees, usually Fagus but also known on Acer pseudoplatanus, Betula spp., Fraxinus, Quercus robur and Ulmus spp.

Notes: Rather rare, but widespread especially in areas of old deciduous woodland. Most frequently reported from southern and south-western England.

Distribution: E: o, W: !, ROI: !, Other: Channel Islands: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 67224; Wales: K(M) 54187; ROI: K(M) 38444

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Creolophus cirrhatus, p. 246-247
D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P.J. & Spooner, B.M., British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi: an account of the British Cantharelloid and stipitate Hydnoid Fungi, (Ed.: Pegler D.N., Roberts P.J., and Spooner B.M.): 114 pp. (1997), p. 52-53
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), as Creolophus cirrhatus, p. 238, pl. 284
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), as Creolophus cirrhatus, p. 283

Conservation Status: Vulnerable (Red Data List, Ing 1992) as Creolophus cirrhatus; removed from list (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)

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