Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Ganoderma carnosum Pat., Bull. Soc. mycol. Fr. 5: 66 (1889)

Ganoderma valesiacum sensu Pegler (1973)
Ganoderma atkinsonii H. Jahn, Kotl. & Pouzar, Westfälische Pilzbriefe 11(6): 98 (1980)

Habitat: On living trunks of Taxus usually in areas of mixed woodland on calcareous soil.

Notes: Known from East Gloucestershire, East Sussex, Hertfordshsire, Middlesex, North & South Hampshire, Surrey, West Kent and West Sussex, and from Stirlingshire. Usually reported as Ganoderma valesiacum but this is a central European species, unknown in Britain, and restricted to Larix spp. fide Ryvarden and Gilbertson (EurPoly1).

Distribution: E: !, S: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 64377; Scotland: E00159895

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 332, pl. 426 ( ? Typical )
D:, in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Abortiporus - Lindtneria, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 1: 1-387 (1993), p. 273

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