Hydnellum spongiosipes    (Peck) Pouzar 

common name(s) : Velvet Tooth 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Thelephorales/Bankeraceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae  

synonyms: Calodon velutinus, Hydnellum velutinum-spongiosipes 

edibility : unknown edibility

photo gallery of Hydnellum spongiosipes
photo gallery of Hydnellum spongiosipes potential confusions with Hydnellum spongiosipes toxicity of Hydnellum spongiosipes genus Hydnellum  

The fruiting body is funnel-shaped or convex, irregular, single or fused with other samples, whitish yellow to dark cinnamon brown, without concentrical bands, with a reddish-brown, dark stem.

the odour is mealy.

The fertile surface is made of whitish then dark brown spines. The spore print is brown.

It grows on the ground, in broad-leaved woods.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 8 cm (between 2 and 19 cm)
  total height approximately 6 cm (between 1 and 9 cm)
  width of stem approximately 20 mm (between 5 and 30 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Hydnellum spongiosipes is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Hydnellum spongiosipes in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Hydnellum spongiosipes in the forest of Rambouillet



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