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Gomphus clavatusPhoto: Michael KrikorevBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Also known as 'Pig's Ears'; distinctive medium sized lilaceous or violet to pinkish-yellow; top-shaped and funnelled, sometimes ear-shaped on one side; on soil in coniferous forests, more rarely with hardwoods; sometimes clustered or in rings.Dimensions: 4-10cm tall x 2-6cm dia. Fruit Body: lilaceous or violet with ochre or grey-brown tinges; turbinate, infundibuliform when young, smooth to undulating, margin acute; hymenial surface longitudinally veined with sometimes forked and anastomosing ridges; stem base smooth, finely tomentose; flesh: white, marbled, soft and fragile. |
Spores: Yellowish, ellipsoid, coarsely verrucose, with droplets, 10-14 x 4.5-5.5 µm . Basidia 4 spored; cystidia absent. Odour: Not distinctive. Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Summer. |
| Qualifying criterion: 1: internationally threatened species |
| Justification: threatened in over 50% of countries within its European range |
| Threats: acidification and eutrophication of forest soils, ground compaction, felling of host trees, overgrowth |
| Action Required: with only 1 post-1960 record, detection and recording is a priority. |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records
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Total records: 9 |
| Earliest recording: 1891 | |
| Latest recording: 2001 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 18(3) 22(1); 23(2); 33(2); 92(1) | |
| Pre-1960: 8 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 1 records |