Inonotus hispidus (Bull.) P. Karst.
(Shaggy Bracket)

Interactions where Inonotus hispidus 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			Sophora japonica	Pagoda Tree	Fabales: Fabaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Sophora japonica/	Sophora japonica	pagoda tree		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Sophora japonica	Pagoda Tree	Fabales: Fabaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fabales/Fabaceae/Sophora japonica/	Sophora japonica	pagoda tree		dead	trunk
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 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus/	Quercus	oaks		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead 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 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus/	Quercus	oaks		dead	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Quercus cerris	Turkey Oak	Fagales: Fagaceae	Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus cerris/	Quercus cerris	Turkey oak		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Quercus cerris	Turkey Oak	Fagales: Fagaceae	Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Fagaceae/Quercus cerris/	Quercus cerris	Turkey oak		dead	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Juglans regia	Walnut	Fagales: Juglandaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Fagales/Juglandaceae/Juglans regia/	Juglans regia	walnut		live	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Fraxinus excelsior	Ash	Lamiales: Oleaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus excelsior/	Fraxinus excelsior	ash		live	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Fraxinus excelsior	Ash	Lamiales: Oleaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Lamiales/Oleaceae/Fraxinus excelsior/	Fraxinus excelsior	ash		dead	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Tilia	limes	Malvales: Malvaceae	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/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Tilia/	Tilia	limes		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Tilia	limes	Malvales: Malvaceae	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/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Malvales/Malvaceae/Tilia/	Tilia	limes		dead	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Platanus	plane trees	Proteales: Platanaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus/	Platanus	plane trees		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Platanus	plane trees	Proteales: Platanaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Proteales/Platanaceae/Platanus/	Platanus	plane trees		dead	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Malus	apples	Rosales: Rosaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 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/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Malus/	Malus	apples		live	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Malus	apples	Rosales: Rosaceae	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/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe			/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Malus/	Malus	apples		dead	trunk		Major
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Sorbus torminalis	Wild Service-tree	Rosales: Rosaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		live	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Sorbus torminalis	Wild Service-tree	Rosales: Rosaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Rosaceae/Sorbus torminalis/	Sorbus torminalis	wild service-tree		dead	trunk
fruitbody		fruitbody parasitises live trunk			Ulmus	elms	Rosales: Ulmaceae	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants, Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998 Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / parasite		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Ulmaceae/Ulmus/	Ulmus	elms		live	trunk		Minor
fruitbody		fruitbody is saprobic on dead trunk			Ulmus	elms	Rosales: Ulmaceae	Checklist of the British and Irish Basidiomycota, Legon, N.W. & Henrici, A. with Roberts, P.J., Spooner, B.M. & Watling, R., 2005 Unusual hosts for some common British fungi, Reid, D.A., 1978	/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket				fruitbody	Foodplant / saprobe		UK and/or Eire	/Plantae/Tracheophyta/Magnoliopsida/Rosales/Ulmaceae/Ulmus/	Ulmus	elms		dead	trunk		Minor

Interactions where Inonotus hispidus is the victim or passive partner (and generally loses out from the process)

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

Filters:

Affected Part		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	Summary
(decaying)		decaying basidiome is decayed by sclerotium			Collybia cookei	Splitpea Shanklet	Agaricales: Tricholomataceae	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/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae/Collybia cookei/	Collybia cookei	splitpea shanklet				sclerotium	Fungus / saprobe			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket		decaying		basidiome				sclerotium is saprobic on decaying basidiome
(mummified)		mummified basidiome is decayed by sclerotium			Collybia cookei	Splitpea Shanklet	Agaricales: Tricholomataceae	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/Agaricales/Tricholomataceae/Collybia cookei/	Collybia cookei	splitpea shanklet				sclerotium	Fungus / saprobe			/Fungi/Basidiomycota/Agaricomycetes/Hymenochaetales/Hymenochaetaceae/Inonotus hispidus/	Inonotus hispidus	shaggy bracket		mummified		basidiome				sclerotium is saprobic on mummified basidiome

Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket) may also be included in 'feeds on' relations listed under the following higher taxa:

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket) may also 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
Buczacki, S. & Harris, K., 1998	Pests, Diseases & Disorders of Garden Plants	Collins Photoguide, 2nd edition edition, Collins
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
Reid, D.A., 1978	Unusual hosts for some common British fungi	Bull. Br. mycol. Soc. Vol 12 (2): 87-89.

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Species	Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket)
Genus	Inonotus (a genus of bracket fungi)
Family	HYMENOCHAETACEAE (a family of bracket fungi)
Order	HYMENOCHAETALES (an order of basidiomycete fungi)
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)

Inonotus hispidus is also a member of:
Macromycetes - larger fungi, macrofungi (via Hymenochaetaceae)
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 Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket)

Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket) may be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Inonotus
(a genus of bracket fungi)

HYMENOCHAETACEAE
(a family of bracket fungi)

HYMENOCHAETALES
(an order of basidiomycete fungi)

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

Interesting Insecta Assemblage reared from the Bracket Fungus Inonotus hispidus (Bull. ex Fr.) Karst From Hyde Park, Middlesex

Unusual hosts for some common British fungi

Soft rot and multiple T-branching by the basidiomycete Inonotus hispidus in ash and London plane

Literature listed under the following higher taxa may also be relevant to Inonotus hispidus (Shaggy Bracket):

Inonotus
(a genus of bracket fungi)

HYMENOCHAETACEAE
(a family of bracket fungi)

HYMENOCHAETALES
(an order of basidiomycete fungi)

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))

A large, soft, shaggy, brown bracket fungus which is often found during the summer and autumn on trunks of trees, especially Ash (Fraxinus) and Apple (Malus)

Creative Commons License

This website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence.

Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioInfo website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under the above Creative Commons Licence.

BioInfo - Wildlife Information (UK)