Gloeophyllum odoratum (Wulfen) Imazeki, Bull. Tokyo Sci. Mus. 6: 75 (1943) Boletus odoratus Wulfen, in Jacquin, Collnea bot. (Vindobonae) 2: 150 (1788) Polyporus odoratus (Wulfen) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 373 (1821) Trametes odorata (Wulfen) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 489 (1838) [1836-1838] Osmoporus odoratus (Wulfen) Singer, Mycologia 36: 67 (1944)
Habitat: On decayed wood of conifers.
Notes: A single collection in herb. E from South Aberdeen in 2000. Reported from North Wales in 1987, but unsubstantiated with voucher material. A distinctive species with a strong smell of anise when fresh.
Distribution: S: !, W: ?
Vouchers: ; Scotland: E00122724
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 310, pl. 392 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 241 D:, in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Abortiporus - Lindtneria, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 1: 1-387 (1993), p. 286
Conservation Status: Vulnerable (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Vulnerable / D2 (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)
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