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Fistulina hepatica (Schaeff.) With., Bot. arr. Brit. pl. Edn 2 (London) 2: 405 (1792) Boletus hepaticus Schaeff., Fung. Bavar. Palat. 2: 116 (1763)
Habitat: Weakly parasitic then saprotrophic. On deciduous trees, most often Quercus spp., occasionally Castanea and rarely Fagus. A single collection (in herb. K) in 2003 from the trunk of a fifty year old climbing Rosa cultivar.
Notes: Very common and widespread. Although basidiomes appear poroid, they are actually composed of multiple individual tubes on a common stroma and are better thought of as cyphelloid. English name = 'Beefsteak Fungus'.
Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: c, NI: c, ROI: c, Other: Channel Islands: !; Isle of Man: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 24320; Scotland: K(M) 77250; NI: K(M) 77251
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 224
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 334, pl. 428
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 294
D:, in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Abortiporus - Lindtneria, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 1: 1-387 (1993), p. 249
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