Erythricium laetum (P. Karst.) J. Erikss. & Hjortstam, Svensk bot. Tidskr. 64(2): 166 (1970) Corticium anthochroum sensu Massee (1892), sensu Rea (1922) Hyphoderma laetum P. Karst., Revue mycol. Toulouse 11(no. 47): 206 (1889) Corticium laetum (P. Karst.) Bres., Annls mycol. 1(1): 94 (1903)
Habitat: On bare soil, large dead herbaceous stems such as Arctium lappa and Digitalis purpurea and decayed wood of Acer pseudoplatanus and Fraxinus.
Notes: Known from Co. Durham, Hertfordshire, Herefordshire, Surrey, Warwickshire, West Norfolk and Yorkshire. A single collection in herb. K., from the Republic of Ireland, is annotated as 'cf.' E. laetum. Probably genuinely rare, the rose-pink basidiomes conspicuous and unlikely to be overlooked.
Distribution: E: !, ROI: ?
Vouchers: England: K(M) 38181; ROI: K(M) 23559
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 130, pl. 121 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 166
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