Hericium coralloides (Scop.) Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 109 (1794) Hydnum coralloides Scop., Fl. carniol. Edn 2 (Vienna) 2: 472 (1772) Hydnum clathroides Pall., Lich. Antarct. 2: 744 (1773) Hericium clathroides (Pall.) Pers., Comm. fung. clav. (Lipsiae): 23 (1797) Hydnum ramosum Bull., Schr. naturf. Ges. Leipzig 1: 104 (1822) Hericium ramosum (Bull.) Letell., Hist. Champ. Fr. (Paris): 43 (1826) Friesites coralloides (Scop.) P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 5: 41 (1880) Dryodon coralloides (Scop.) P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 6: 15 (1881)
Habitat: On dead parts of standing trees, stumps or fallen wood of broadleaved trees, usually dead standing trunks of Fagus and Fraxinus in old deciduous woodland. A single record on Ulmus glabra.
Notes: Rare. Known from widely scattered sites from Yorkshire southwards but mainly from southern counties.
Distribution: E: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 61470
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), as Hericium ramosum, p. 245 D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P.J. & Spooner, B.M., British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi: an account of the British Cantharelloid and stipitate Hydnoid Fungi, (Ed.: Pegler D.N., Roberts P.J., and Spooner B.M.): 114 pp. (1997), p. 54-55 D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 240, pl. 286 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 284
Conservation Status: Vulnerable (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Near Threatened (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006); BAP species
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