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Phellinus igniarius (Willow Bracket)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Phellinus igniarius (syn. Phellinus trivialis ) is a fungus of the family of Hymenochaetaceae. Like other members of the genus of Phellinus it lives by saprotrophic nutrition, in which the lignin and cellulose of a host tree is degraded and is a cause of crotch rot . Common names are Willow bracket and Fire sponge
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Infraspecies

Phellinus igniarius var. igniarius
Phellinus nigricans var. nigricans

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Chippewa Nature Center   Michigan, United States    
Fenland 1529 England, United Kingdom
Fenn`s, Whixall, Bettisfield, Wem and Cadney Mosses 2346 England/Wales, United Kingdom  
North Pennine Moors 254789 England, United Kingdom
Western Michigan University’s Asylum Lake Preserve 274 Michigan, United States

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Betula pendula (European white birch)[1]
Salix caprea (goat willow)[1]

Prey / Diet Overlap

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Providers

Parasite of 
Betula pendula (European white birch)[1]
Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)[2]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Ecology of Commanster
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0