G. applanatum is the most common European species known as the “artists fungus ” (Sokół, 2000; Ryvarden, Melo, 2014). It grows mostly in forests (Kotlaba, 1984; Sokół, 2000; Papp, Szabó, 2013) and rarely in urban areas (Gáperová, 2001). In Europe, it was recorded on 35 genera of trees (Breitenbach, Kränzlin, 1986; Bernicchia, 2005; Ryvarden, Melo, 2014).

Published as part of Beck, Terézia, Gáper, Ján, Šebesta, Martin & Gáperová, Svetlana, 2018, Host preferences of wood-decaying fungi of the genus Ganoderma in the urban areas of Slovakia, pp. 22-37 in Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis Studia Naturae 3 on page 23, DOI: 10.24917/25438832.3.2, http://zenodo.org/record/16745740