Phylum: Ascomycota Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Rhytismatales Family: Cudoniaceae
Species: Spathularia flavida Pers.
Synonyms: Clavaria spathulata
Helvella clavata
Helvella spathulata
Helvella spatulata
Mitrula spathulata
Spathularia clavata
Spathularia flava
Common Name: Yellow Fan


British Red Data List (2006): Near Threatened
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Spathularia flavidaPhotographer: © Mark Wright
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Larix (7)
Larix kaempferi (2)
Picea (1)
Pseudotsuga (1)
Pinus sylvestris (1)
Pseudotsuga menziesii (1)
Larix decidua (1)
Abies veitchii (1)
Abies alba (1)
Pinaceae (1)
Pinus (1)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland and scrub (2)
Woodland: coniferous, plantation, high forest (2)
Grassland and marsh (1)
Woodland (1)
Woodland: coniferous (1)
Woodland: coniferous, plantation (1)
Woodland: mixed, plantation (1)
Woodland: mixed, plantation, high forest (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Soil Needle (8)
Leaf Litter (2)
Root (2)
Soil (2)
Soil Mossy (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
July (2)
August (3)
September (10)
October (9)
November (2)
December (1)