Auriscalpium vulgare S.F. Gray
Pine cone tooth fungus

vulgare, common

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Description:
polypore
Fruiting Body: cap 1-4 cm; stalk laterally attached, 2-10 cm long x 3 mm diameter. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: basidiospores 5-6 x 4-5 µm, subglobose, rough, hyaline, amyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: brown cap with teeth, laterally attached brown stalk, on conifer cones

Diagnostic microscopic feature: amyloid rough spores

Dynamically generated map
common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: conifer cones on ground

Habitat: conifer woods

Fruiting Season: late summer, fall

 
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Basidiomycota
Order: Russulales
 

 

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