- Proposed
- 2Under Assessment
- 3Preliminary Assessed
- 4Assessed
- 5Published
Trametes versicolor (L.) Lloyd
- Scientific name
- Trametes versicolor
- Author
- (L.) Lloyd
- Common names
Polypore versicolore- Tramète versicolore
Turkey tail
Schmetterlings-Tramete- Bunte Tramete
- Schmetterlingsporling
Raibā tauriņpiepe- IUCN Specialist Group
Mushroom, Bracket and Puffball- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Basidiomycota
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Order
- Polyporales
- Family
- Polyporaceae
- Assessment status
- Proposed
- Proposed by
- Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira
- Comments etc.
- Tatiana Gibertoni, Virton Rodrigo Targino de Oliveira, Nicolas Schwab, Inita Daniele
Assessment Notes
Taxonomic notes
This species is characterized by the thin, tomentose, zonate basidiomata, also extremely variable in color. Pores angular to circular, 4−5 per mm and basidiospores cylindrical, 5−6 × 1.5 µm (Gomes-Silva et al. 2010).
Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment?
Geographic range
The species in known in 106 countries. The record for France is from France and La Réunion. About 1/3 of the records are in the UK.
Population and Trends
There are about 46.000 records of this species in GBIF, about 150 of them in Brazil.
Population Trend: Uncertain
Habitat and Ecology
In Brazil the species is found in Amazonia, Atlantic Forest Cerrado and Caatinga.
Threats
The species is well distributed in Brazil. However, the Amazon has currently the highest rates of deforestation in the last decades and the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado are already a hotspot, and Caatinga is threatened by desertification.
Conservation Actions
Many records are in unprotected areas.
Research needed
Use and Trade
The species has adible and medicinal interest (Boa, 2004; Hobbs, 2004).
