Cystostereum murraii grows in Czechoslovakia as a saprophyte predominantly on Abies alba (75.8% of all findings), rarely on Picea abies and only exceptionally on Fagus sylvatica, mostly on old fallen trunks. Even though its altitudinal occurrence is known to be from 280 to 1500 m a.s.l., the majority of localities (42.6%) are in the montane belt between 800–1100 m. In Czechoslovakia, C. murraii is known from a total of 68 localities — 24 in Bohemia, 15 in Moravia and 29 in Slovakia. Owing to extensive dying of fir, the main host-tree, the number of findings of this Cystostereum has rapidly been decreasing during the last two decades.
Kotlaba F. (1987): Cystostereum murraii (Corticiaceae), its ecology and geographical distribution in Czechoslovakia. – Česká Mykologie 41(3): 129–138.
