Phylum: Basidiomycota Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Agaricales Family: Fistulinaceae
Species: Fistulina hepatica (Schaeff.) With.
Synonyms: Beefsteak Fungus
Boletus hepaticus
Ceriomyces hepatica
Confistulina hepatica
Common Name: Beefsteak Fungus


Swedish Indicator List: Woodland Indicator Species
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Fistulina hepaticaPhotographer: © David Mitchel
On Oak, Quercus robur
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Associated Species (where recorded) & number of records:
Quercus (16)
Quercus petraea (6)
Quercus robur (6)
Castanea sativa (2)
Habitat (where recorded) & number of records:
Woodland and scrub (5)
Woodland: broadleaved, semi-natural (5)
Woodland: mixed, plantation (4)
Parkland and scattered trees (2)
Woodland (2)
Woodland: mixed, plantation, high forest (2)
Woodland: mixed, semi-natural (2)
Lowland hazel-sessile oakwoods (1)
Woodland: mixed (1)
Substrate (where recorded) & number of records:
Tree (17)
Stump (5)
Cut Trunk (1)
Dead Wood (1)
Tree base (1)
Wood (1)
Months recorded in & number of records:
January (2)
March (5)
May (1)
August (7)
September (21)
October (18)
November (2)