Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Phanerochaete velutina (DC.) P. Karst., Kritisk Öfversigt af Finlands Basidsvampar (Basisiomycetes; Gastero- & Hymenomycetes) (Helsingfors) 3: 33 (1898)

Thelephora velutina DC., Fl. franç. Edn 3 (Paris) 5/6: 33 (1815)
Corticium velutinum (DC.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 561 (1838) [1836-1838]
Peniophora velutina (DC.) Cooke, Grevillea 8(no. 45): 21 (1879)
Peniophora scotica Massee, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 25: 152 (1889)

Habitat: On decayed wood of deciduous trees such as Acer pseudoplatanus, Betula spp., Fagus, Populus tremula, Quercus robur and Sorbus aucuparia. Rarely on conifer wood and pit-props in mines.

Notes: Very common and widespread.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 69237; Scotland: K(M) 55018; Wales: K(M) 37633; NI: K(M) 82429

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 158, pl. 164
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 168

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