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List of the current accepted english names of fungi found in the british isles.

Doesn't help when they keep changing the scientific names n'all

Pseudoinonotus dryadeus - Oak Bracket

Just when you think you've got them (partially) licked


English Names for fungi 2012



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No longer part of the Innonotus genus then?

So the alder bracket has gone walkabout too has it?

listed on the attached sheet above, as;

Mensularia radiata - Alder Bracket



I won't be updating the name changes on the directory or the app as things stand.

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The BMS (FRDBI) have the genus listed as Psuedoinonotus


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I think its a new genus David; Inonotus still exists in many other international taxonomic classifications such as http://eol.org/pages/6758632/names

To avoid confusion (and misguided corrections) we will be using;

Psuedoinonotus dryadeus (syn. Inonotus dryadeus)

Until it changes again that is...

Oh I also understand that Phellinus is in the phylogenetic firing line too.

'Tis the era of the splitters.

yes it is, I would not be too concerned about trying to keep up with them not for arb purposes, psuedoinonotus has been used for a long time anyway in some references.

The names will all go back once this clan of splitters lose place and the others get their foot in the door again!

And they wonder why Mycology is a dying game with no-one wanting to join the ranks! the polotics and name games are worse than in arboriculture!

And I see Pseudotrametes gibbosa, admittedly only in use briefly for 70 years, has gone back to Trametes.

Good to see an official name for Kretzschmaria deusta (Brittle cinder) though! I have been calling it Cinder Fungus for a couple of years, largely for fear of someone asking me to pronounce or spell its scientific name.

i always say it like this- Kretzshmahrria De ooosta, it works for me and no ones argued yet!