Perenniporia fraxinea (Bull.) Ryvarden, in Ryvarden, Grundr. Krauterk. 2: 307 (1978) Boletus fraxineus Bull., Herb. Fr. (Paris) 10: tab. 433, fig. 2 (1790) Polyporus fraxineus (Bull.) Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 1: 374 (1821) Fomes cytisinus Berk., in Smith, Engl. fl. Edn 2 (London) 5(2): 142 (1836) Fomes fraxineus (Bull.) Fr., Grevillea 14(no. 69): 21 (1885) Fomitopsis cytisina (Berk.) Bondartsev & Singer, Annls mycol. 39: 55 (1941) Vanderbylia fraxinea (Bull.) D.A. Reid, S. Afr. J. Bot. 39(2): 166 (1973)
Habitat: Weakly parasitic then saprotrophic. On wood, usually at the base of living deciduous trees, most frequently Fraxinus and less often Fagus, Juglans regia, Platanus spp., Populus canescens, P. monilifera, Quercus spp., Robinia pseudoacacia, Salix spp., Sophora japonica, Sorbus, Tilia and Ulmus spp.
Notes: Widespread in England, but with a southern bias. A single old collection by Berkeley from Scotland (Kincardineshire) and also known from the Channel Islands (Jersey).
Distribution: E: o, S: !, Other: Channel Islands: !
Vouchers: England: K(M) 90055; Scotland: K(M) 78740 (very old record); Other: Channel Islands: K(M) 75871
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 296, pl. 370 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 244 D:, in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Meripilus - Tyromyces, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 2: 388-743 (1994), p. 453
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