Sarcodon fuscoindicus

Sarcodon fuscoindicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Thelephorales
Family: Bankeraceae
Genus: Sarcodon
Species: S. fuscoindicus
Binomial name
Sarcodon fuscoindicus
Synonyms[1]
  • Hydnum fuscoindicum K.A.Harrison (1964)

Sarcodon fuscoindicus is a species of tooth fungus in the genus Sarcodon. Found in the western United States, it produces fruit bodies with a violet-black cap, violet flesh, and violet spines on the cap underside. The fungus was first described by K.A.Harrison in 1964 as a species of Hydnum,[2] then transferred to Sarcodon in 1967 by Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. He placed this species in section Violacei of Sarcodon, along with S. talpa and S. joides.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon fuscoindicus (K.A. Harrison) Maas Geest". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2014-06-10.
  2. ↑ Harrison KA. (1964). "New or little known North American stipitate Hydnums". Canadian Journal of Botany. 42 (9): 1205–33. doi:10.1139/b64-116.
  3. ↑ Maas Geesteranus RA. (1967). "Notes on hydnums – VII". Persoonia. 5 (1): 1–13 (see p.&nbsp, 10).


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