Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Hymenochaetales Family: Hymenochaetaceae
Species: Pseudoinonotus dryadeus (Pers.) T. Wagner & M. Fisch.
Synonyms: Boletus dryadeus
Inonotus dryadeus
Polyporus dryadeus
Common Name: Oak Bracket


Swedish Indicator List: Woodland Indicator Species
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Pseudoinonotus dryadeusPhotographer: © Mark Wright
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Quercus petraea (23)
Quercus (22)
Quercus robur (4)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Parkland and scattered trees (11)
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (10)
Parkland and scattered trees: broadleaved (5)
Woodland (4)
Woodland: mixed, plantation (4)
Grassland: acidic, unimproved, lowland (3)
Parkland and scattered trees: mixed (3)
Woodland and scrub (3)
Woodland: mixed, semi-natural (2)
Woodland: plantation (2)
Acid sessile oak-hazel-ash woods (1)
Built up area, domestic (1)
Neutral grassland: semi-improved (1)
Scrub (1)
Woodland: broadleaved, plantation (1)
Woodland: broadleaved, plantation, high forest (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Tree (29)
Stem (3)
Stump (3)
Wood (3)
Dead Wood (1)
Tree base (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (2)
February (1)
March (8)
April (1)
July (2)
August (16)
September (24)
October (13)
November (1)
December (1)