Scytinostroma portentosum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk
(Mothball Crust)

Interactions where Scytinostroma portentosum is the controlling partner and gains from the process

The following relationships have been collated from the published literature (see 'References').

Stage		Summary			Taxon	Vernacular	Classification	References	Darwin Classification of Active Taxon	Active Taxon	Active Vernacular	Active Taxon Uncertain	Active State	Active Part	Active Stage	Relationship	Relationship Uncertain	Relationship Geography	Darwin Classification of Passive Taxon	Passive Taxon	Passive Vernacular	Passive Taxon Uncertain	Passive State	Passive Part	Passive Stage	Passive Taxon's significance to Active Taxon	Indoors etc	Season
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large)			Fagus	beeches	Fagales: Fagaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	trunk (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large)			Fagus	beeches	Fagales: Fagaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	log (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead bark			Fagus	beeches	Fagales: Fagaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead	bark		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large)			Fraxinus	ashes	Lamiales: Oleaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	trunk (large)		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large)			Fraxinus	ashes	Lamiales: Oleaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	log (large)		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead bark			Fraxinus	ashes	Lamiales: Oleaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes		dead	bark		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate trunk (large)			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	trunk (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate log (large)			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		dead, fallen, decayed, decorticate	log (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead bark			Salix	willows	Malpighiales: Salicaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Russulales/Lachnocladiaceae/Scytinostroma portentosum/	Scytinostroma portentosum	mothball crust				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Salix/	Salix	willows		dead	bark		Minor

Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Author & Year	Title	Source
Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota	517pp, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust)
Family	LACHNOCLADIACEAE (a family of basidiomycete fungi)
Order	RUSSULALES (an order of toadstools)
Subclass	AGARICOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of basidiomycetes)
Class	AGARICOMYCETES (a class of fungi)
Subphylum	AGARICOMYCOTINA
Phylum	BASIDIOMYCOTA (spore droppers)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

Scytinostroma portentosum is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Russulales)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

NBN

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Ainsworth, M.	2004	Developing tools for assessing fungal interest in habitats, 1: beech woodland saprotrophs	Research Reports, Report no 597, 75pp, English Nature
	Legon, N. & Pegler, D.N.	1996	Profiles of Fungi No. 77: Scytinostroma portentosum (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Donk	Mycologist Vol 10 (2): 84.

Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

LACHNOCLADIACEAE
(a family of basidiomycete fungi)

RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Scytinostroma portentosum (Mothball Crust):

LACHNOCLADIACEAE
(a family of basidiomycete fungi)

RUSSULALES
(an order of toadstools)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Macromycetes
(larger fungi, macrofungi)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

Rare

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