Spongipellis delectans (Peck) Murrill
(Spongy Mazegill)

Interactions where Spongipellis delectans 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 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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead, fallen, decayed	trunk (large)		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed branch (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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead, fallen, decayed	branch (large)		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed 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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes		dead, fallen, decayed	trunk (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed branch (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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes		dead, fallen, decayed	branch (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed trunk (large)			Acer pseudoplatanus	Sycamore, Great Maple	Sapindales: Sapindaceae	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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapindales/Sapindaceae/Acer pseudoplatanus/	Acer pseudoplatanus	sycamore, great maple		dead, fallen, decayed	trunk (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed branch (large)			Acer pseudoplatanus	Sycamore, Great Maple	Sapindales: Sapindaceae	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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapindales/Sapindaceae/Acer pseudoplatanus/	Acer pseudoplatanus	sycamore, great maple		dead, fallen, decayed	branch (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed trunk (large)			Aesculus	horse chestnuts	Sapindales: Sapindaceae	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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapindales/Sapindaceae/Aesculus/	Aesculus	horse chestnuts		dead, fallen, decayed	trunk (large)		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, fallen, decayed branch (large)			Aesculus	horse chestnuts	Sapindales: Sapindaceae	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/Polyporales/Polyporaceae/Spongipellis delectans/	Spongipellis delectans	spongy mazegill				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Sapindales/Sapindaceae/Aesculus/	Aesculus	horse chestnuts		dead, fallen, decayed	branch (large)		Minor

Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill) may be included in 'fed on by' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

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	Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill)
Genus	Spongipellis (mazegill fungi)
Family	POLYPORACEAE (a family of polypores)
Order	POLYPORALES (polypores)
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)

Spongipellis delectans is also a member of:
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 Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill)

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
	Overall, A.	2010	Fungi Royale: some interesting larger fungi of the Royal Parks - Part 1	Field Mycology Vol 11 (3): 101-4.

Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may be relevant to Spongipellis delectans (Spongy Mazegill):

POLYPORACEAE
(a family of polypores)

POLYPORALES
(polypores)

AGARICOMYCETIDAE
(a subclass of basidiomycetes)

AGARICOMYCETES
(a class of fungi)

BASIDIOMYCOTA
(spore droppers)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

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

Rare

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