Checklist of the British & Irish Basidiomycota

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Pycnoporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) P. Karst., Revue mycol. Toulouse 3(no. 9): 18 (1881)

Boletus cinnabarinus Jacq., Fl. austriac. 4: 2 (1776)
Polyporus cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 371 (1821)
Trametes cinnabarinus (Jacq.) Fr., Summa veg. Scand. Section Post. (Stockholm): 323 (1849)

Habitat: On dead wood of deciduous trees in mixed woodland. British material on Betula spp.

Notes: Extremely rare and possibly extinct. Last confirmed collection (specimen in herb. K) from Scotland (Mid-Perthshire: Murthly) in 1913. Reported from England (Herefordshire in 1902, South Lancashire 1981, East Gloucestershire in 1994, and Yorkshire) but unsubstantiated with voucher material or misdetermined Daedaleopsis confragosa.

Distribution: E: ?, S: !

Vouchers: ; Scotland: K(M) 78775

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 222
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 284, pl. 353
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 229
D:, in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Meripilus - Tyromyces, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 2: 388-743 (1994), p. 595

Conservation Status: Endangered (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Extinct 1913 (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006)

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