Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

Phleogena faginea (Fr.) Link, Handbuck zur Erkennung der Nutzbarsten und am Häufigsten Vorkommenden Gewächse 3: 396 (1833)

Onygena faginea Fr., in Fries & Nordholm, Symb. gasteromyc. (Lund) 3: 25 (1818) [1817]
Pilacre faginea (Fr.) Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 2 [Notices of British Fungi No. 380] 5: 365 (1850)
Pilacre petersii Berk. & M.A. Curtis, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 3 [Notices of British Fungi No. 824] 3: 362 (1859)
Ecchyna faginea (Fr.) Fr. ex Boud., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 1: 111 (1885)
Ecchyna petersii (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Pat., Essai Tax. Hyménomyc. (Lons-le-Saunier): 17 (1900)

Habitat: Saprotrophic, and possibly weakly parasitic. On dead woody substrata and living trunks of deciduous trees (rarely on conifer wood).

Notes: Not uncommon in southern England. Basidiomes resemble large fruitbodies of the myxomycete genus Physarum. When dried they develop a strong smell of fenugreek or curry powder which lasts for years in herbarium material.

Distribution: E: o, S: !

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