Neolentiporus squamosellus

This is a wood-inhabiting, brown-rotting, pileate annual polypore forming highly distinctive and conspicuous basidiomata on wood of Juniperus oxycedrus subsp. oxycedrus trees. Only recorded from Italy (Sardinia) on Juniperus oxycedrus subsp. oxycedrus at the type locality and at two sites in southern France, one on Juniperus oxycedrus and one on Cedrus atlantica. Given it has only been recorded on one cedar tree, the role of this tree in the ecology of the fungus is uncertain. A continuing decline is inferred based on the reduction in number of old trees on which it can grow. It therefore qualifies as EN C2a(i).