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Trametes versicolor (L.) Pilát, Atlas des Champignons de l'Europe 3: 261 (1939)

Boletus versicolor L., Sp. pl. 2: 1176 (1753)
Poria versicolor (L.) Scop., Fl. carniol. 2: 468 (1772)
Agaricus versicolor (L.) Lam., Encyclop. Méthod. 1: 50 (1783)
Polyporus fuscatus Fr., Observ. mycol. 2: 259 (1818)
Polyporus versicolor (L.) Fr., Syst. mycol. 1: 368 (1821)
Polystictus azureus Fr., Nova Acta R. Soc. Scient. upsal. 1(1): 93 (1851)
Polyporus nigricans Lasch, in Rabenhorst, Fungi europ. exsicc. 4: no. 15 (1859)
Polyporus versicolor var. nigricans Fr., Hymenomyc. Eur.: 568 (1874)
Coriolus versicolor (L.) Quél., Enchir. fung.: 175 (1886)
Polystictus versicolor (L.) Cooke, Grevillea 14(no. 71): 83 (1886)
Polystictus versicolor var. fuscatus (Fr.) Rea, Brit. Basidiom.: 609 (1922)
Polystictus versicolor var. nigricans (Lasch) Rea, Brit. Basidiom.: 609 (1922)
Coriolus versicolor f. azureus (Fr.) Rajchenb., Boln Soc. argent. Bot. 21(1-4): 40 (1982)

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I: in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 235
D+I: in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 288, pl. 359
D: in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 230
D: in Ryvarden, L & Gilbertson, R.L., European Polypores: Meripilus - Tyromyces, (Ed.: Ryvarden L. & Gilbertson R.L) 2: 388-743 (1994), p. 667

Polyporaceae, Polyporales, Incertae sedis, Agaricomycetes, Basidiomycota

FRDBI summary data (11764 records)

Distribution Map from NBN Gateway

Distribution Map from GBIF Portal

Pictures/Illustrations:
Trametes versicolor, See Website, Bob Chilton

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