DIVISION: Basidiomycota, ORDER: Ganodermatales, FAMILY: Ganodermataceae

Ganoderma applanatum (Pers.) Pat., Hyménomyc. Eur. : 143 (1887)

General references

Cunningham (1965: Elfvingia, including Polyporus scansilis), Steyaert (1972), Donk (1974b: including Ganoderma lipsiense (Batsch) G.F.Atk.), Ryvarden & Johansen (1980: seems to be confined to the Northern Temperate Zone), Ryvarden (1982b), Corner (1983), Jülich (1984c: including G. lipsiense), Gilbertson & Ryvarden (1986), Rauschert (1990: under G. lipsiense), Ryvarden (1991), Ryvarden & Gilbertson (1993), Buchanan & Wilkie (1995: sensu Southern Hemisphere is a separate taxon), Moncalvo & Ryvarden (1997), Quanten (1997), Gottlieb & Wright (1999: G. lipsiense, with applanatum as synonym), Buchanan & Ryvarden (2000b).

References to occurrences in Australia

Aberdeen (1979), Alcorn (1976), Bailey (1885c; 1886; 1888: and including Polyporus dryadeus; 1890b; 1890c; 1913: and including P. dryadeus), Berkeley & Broome (1887), Bougher & Syme (1998), Carnegie (2003), Cheel (1907c; 1912b: ?; 1913c), Cheel & Cleland (1918), Cleland (1924: and leucophaeus; 1934; 1935a), Cleland & Cheel (1917b: and leucophaeus, including incrassatus; 1923: and leucophaeus), Cook & Dubé (1989), Cooke (1879b; 1882a; 1892a), Cunningham (1927d; 1949a; 1950b; 1965: including G. polymorphum), Doepel (1964), Elford (1944), Fuhrer (2005), Fuhrer & Robinson (1992), Gates & Ratkowsky (2004), George & Kenneally (1977), Hawkeswood (1986; 1989), Hennings (1898), Hooke & Stewart (1935), Hilton (1982), Hilton & Clancy (1988), Hilton et al. (1989), Hnatiuk & Kenneally (1981), Humphrey & Leus (1931), Lawrence & Milner (1996), Lee (1953), Lloyd (1911c: approaching F. leucophaeus, p. 2; 1911g: p. 2; 1913f: leucophaeus, p. 2; 1914a: p. 5; 1915a: pp. 263, 264, and leucophaeus, p. 264, and leucophaeus including F. incrassatus, p. 281; 1915e: p. 2; 1915f: p. 2; 1916h: p. 3; 1918d: pp. 4, 9; 1919e: p. 10; 1920b: p. 975; 1921: p. 1089; 1922a: p. 1127, and leucophaeus, p. 1126; 1924b: p. 1298), Macdonald & Westerman (1979), Macnish (1964), Mathieson (1946), May (1997b: cf.; 1998), McAlpine (1895), McCann (2003), Moncalvo & Ryvarden (1997: including Polyporus incrassatus), Mueller (1881), Noble et al. (1935), Parsons (1977), Pearce (1990), Pearce & Malajczuk (1990b), Refshauge & Proctor (1936), Ryvarden (1984: including Polyporus incrassatus; 1991), Saccardo (1888), Shepherd & Totterdell (1988), Shivas (1989), Simmonds (1966), Smith & Savisithamparam (2003: sensu Cooke (1882a, 1892), McAlpine (1895), Cleland (1935), Humphrey and Leus (1931), Fuhrer & Robinson (1992), Hilton & Clancy (1988) and Cunningham (1965) is Ganoderma australe), Stewart & Hooke (1934: Ganodernia), Wakefield (1915), Walters (1953; 1962), Willis (1934b; 1945; 1978), Young (1994; 2005: Ganoderma australe sensu Bougher & Syme (1998) 'is most likely to be' this species).

References to occurrences outside Australia (general)

These are reports from outside Australia of taxa first described from Australian type localities. Any reports that specify association with Eucalyptus are listed separately.
Shivas & Hilton (1990: Christmas Is.).

References to occurrences outside Australia (with Eucalyptus)

These are reports from outside Australia which specify an association with Eucalyptus.
Farr et al. (1989: on Eucalyptus, U.S.A.), Sinclair et al. (1987: on Eucalyptus, U.S.A.),

References with illustrations of fruiting bodies - colour

Fuhrer (2005), Fuhrer & Robinson (1992), McCann (2003), Macdonald & Westerman (1979), Shepherd & Totterdell (1988), Young (1994).

References with illustrations of fruiting bodies - black and white

Humphrey & Leus (1931), Parsons (1977), Walters (1953).

References with illustrations of microscopic characters

Humphrey & Leus (1931).