Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Thelephora penicillata Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 434 (1821)

Thelephora mollissima Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 572 (1801)
Thelephora spiculosa Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 434 (1821)
Phylacteria mollissima (Pers.) Rea, Brit. basidiomyc. (Cambridge): 653 (1922)

Habitat: On soil or decayed leaf litter, often in wet areas such as the sides of streams and in swampy woodland.

Notes: Rarely reported but apparently widespread.

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

Vouchers: England: K(M) 60185; Scotland: K(M) 82244; Wales: K(M) 30769

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 262
D+I:, 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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