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Phlebiopsis gigantea (Fr.) Jülich, Persoonia 10(1): 137 (1978) Thelephora gigantea Fr., Observ. mycol. (Leipzig) 1: 152 (1815)
Thelephora pergamenea Pers., Mycol. eur. (Erlanga) 1: 150 (1822)
Corticium giganteum (Fr.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 559 (1838) [1836-1838]
Peniophora gigantea (Fr.) Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. (London) 1: 110 (1892)
Peniophora crosslandii Massee, Brit. Fung.-Fl. (London) 1: 418 (1892)
Phlebia gigantea (Fr.) Donk, Fungus, Wageningen 27: 12 (1957)
Phanerochaete gigantea (Fr.) S.S. Rattan, Biblthca Mycol. 60: 260 (1977)
Habitat: On decayed wood of conifers, especially on cut stumps or the cut ends of stacked trunks. Known on Larix, Picea abies, Pinus nigra, Pinus sylvestris and (rarely) Taxus.
Notes: Common and widespread throughout England and Scotland, less often reported elsewhere. Basidiomes are conspicuous, forming thick sheets, the general appearance likened to 'candle wax' poured over the wood. In some plantations, it has been innoculated onto freshly cut stumps as a biocontrol agent to impede growth of the virulently pathogenic Heterobasidion annosum.
Distribution: E: c, S: c, W: o, NI: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 48147; Wales: NMW C93.21.22
Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 158, pl. 165
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 169
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