Sarcodon Quel . ex P.Karst., Revue mycol., Toulouse 3 (no. 9): 20 (1881).

Larsson, Karl-Henrik, Svantesson, Sten, Miscevic, Diana, Koljalg, Urmas & Larsson, Ellen, 2019, Reassessment of the generic limits for Hydnellum and Sarcodon (Thelephorales, Basidiomycota), MycoKeys 54, pp. 31-47 : 31

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.54.35386

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scientific name

Sarcodon Quel . ex P.Karst., Revue mycol., Toulouse 3 (no. 9): 20 (1881).
status

 

Sarcodon Quel. ex P.Karst., Revue mycol., Toulouse 3 (no. 9): 20 (1881). View in CoL View at ENA

Type species.

Sarcodon imbricatus (L.:Fr.) P.Karst. (1881)

Basionym.

Hydnum imbricatum L.:Fr. (1753).

Basidiomata with pileus and stipe, single or concrescent; pileus thin to thick, at first smooth and velutinous, when mature smooth or scaly, brownish; stipe thick, solid, mostly short; hymenophore hydnoid, usually strongly decurrent; context soft and brittle; hyphal system monomitic, septa with clamps, context hyphae inflated; cystidia lacking; basidia narrowly clavate, producing four sterigmata; basidiospores with irregular outline, more or less lobed, verrucose, brownish. Terrestrial, forming ectomycorrhiza with forest trees.