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Mothball Crust

Scytinostroma portentosum

57Records since 2000
NovemberPeak month
6Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb5
Mar5
Apr6
May3
Jun1
Jul1
Aug4
Sep7
Oct6
Nov9
Dec3

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England8
2North Yorkshire England7
3Oxfordshire England6
4Aberdeenshire Scotland3
5Suffolk England1
6Kent England1
35 England3 Scotland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 6 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
57
Peak month
November
Counties with records
6
Scientific name
Scytinostroma portentosum
Group
Fungi
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Fungi
Phylum
Basidiomycota
Class
Agaricomycetes
Order
Russulales
Family
Peniophoraceae
Genus
Scytinostroma
Name with authority
Scytinostroma portentosum (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Donk

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10594046 · GBIF 2552673