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Faerberia carbonaria (Alb. & Schwein.) Pouzar, Česká Mykol. 35(4): 187 (1981)

Xerotus degener sensu auct.
Merulius carbonarius Alb. & Schwein., Consp. fung. (Leipzig): 375 (1805)
Merulius leucophaeus Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 2: 15 (1825)
Cantharellus leucophaeus Nouel, Mém. Soc. Imp. Sci. Agric. Arts Lille: 1 (1831)
Cantharellus radicosus Berk. & Broome, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist. Ser. 3 [Notices of British Fungi No. 1134] 18: 54 (1866)
Cantharellus carbonarius (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr., Hymenomyc. Eur. (Uppsala): 456 (1874)
Geopetalum carbonarium (Alb. & Schwein.) Pat., Hyménomyc. Eur. (Paris): 127 (1887)

Habitat: On burnt soil, most frequently on old bonfire sites in mixed deciduous woodland.

Notes: Occasional in England, rarely reported elsewhere. Most records are from areas of calcareous soil in south-eastern England.

Distribution: E: o, W: !, NI: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 78486; Wales: K(M) 78499 (very old record); NI: K(M) 81595

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Boletes and agarics (1st part) 3: 361 pp. (1991), p. 186, pl. 207
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Polyporales, Boletales, Agaricales, Russulales. 2: 474 pp. (1992), p. 46
D:, in Watling, R. & Gregory, N.M., British Fungus Flora. Agarics and Boleti: 6 Crepidotaceae, Pleurotaceae and other pleurotoid agarics 6: 157 pp. (1989), p. 11
D+I:, in anon., Flora Agaricina Neerlandica 1: Critical Monographs of Families of Agarics and Boleti occuring in the Netherlands Entolomataceae, (Ed.: C.Bas, Th.W. Kuyper, M.E. Noordeloos & E.C. Vellinga) 1: 182 pp. (1988), p. 30
D+I: Profiles of Fungi - 67 Geopetalum carbonarium, in Pegler, D.N. & Legon, N.W., Mycologist 9(2): 49-96 (1995), as Geopetalum carbonarium, p. 60

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