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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