Hericium erinaceus (Bull.) Pers.
(Bearded Tooth)

Interactions where Hericium erinaceus 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 parasitises live trunk			Carpinus betulus	Hornbeam	Fagales: Betulaceae	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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Betulaceae/Carpinus betulus/	Carpinus betulus	hornbeam		live	trunk		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk			Carpinus betulus	Hornbeam	Fagales: Betulaceae	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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Betulaceae/Carpinus betulus/	Carpinus betulus	hornbeam		dead, standing	trunk		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		live	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk			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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Fagus/	Fagus	beeches		dead, standing	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Quercus	oaks	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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus/	Quercus	oaks		live	trunk		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk			Quercus	oaks	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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus/	Quercus	oaks		dead, standing	trunk		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody feeds on trunk			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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus/	Fraxinus	ashes	?		trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody feeds on trunk			Populus	poplars	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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / feeds on			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malpighiales/Salicaceae/Populus/	Populus	poplars	?		trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead, standing trunk			[Broadleaved trees]	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		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/Hericiaceae/Hericium erinaceus/	Hericium erinaceus	bearded tooth				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Broadleaved trees/	Broadleaved trees	broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees		dead, standing	trunk

Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth) 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	Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth)
Genus	Hericium (a genus of tooth fungi)
Family	HERICIACEAE (a family of lignicolous tooth 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)

Hericium erinaceus 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 Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth)

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
	Dickson, G. & Leonard, A.	1996	Fungi of the New Forest - A Mycota	210pp, British Mycological Society
	Pegler, D.N.	2003	Useful Fungi of the World: the Monkey Head Fungus	Mycologist Vol 17 (3): 120-121.

Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Hericium
(a genus of tooth fungi)

HERICIACEAE
(a family of lignicolous tooth 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))

General Literature

Creolophus (=Hericium) cirrhatus, Hericium erinaceus and H. coralloides in England

Preliminary ecological investigation of four wood-inhabiting fungi of conservation concern - oak polypore Piptoporus quercinus (=Buglossoporus pulvinus) and the tooth fungi Hericium/Creolophus spp

Conservation

Conservation Corner (April 2000)

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Hericium erinaceus (Bearded Tooth):

Hericium
(a genus of tooth fungi)

HERICIACEAE
(a family of lignicolous tooth 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))

Vulnerable

Annex

Tranche 2, Feb 1999

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