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Hydnellum aurantiacumPhoto: Michael KrikorevBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Small orange-brown funnel shaped cap with pale margin and spiny under-surface; solitary or in groups, often fused, on soil in coniferous and mixed woods.Dimensions: Cap 2-7cm dia; stem 2-5cm tall x 0.5-2.0cm dia. Fruit Body: Cap orange-brown darkening towards the centre, margin pallid; shallowly infundibuliform, rosette-shaped, concentrically zoned, radially wrinkled, at first tomentose then with small tubercles; stem orange to dark brown, tapering downwards but swollen at the base, downy, wrinkled; flesh in cap white but becoming progressively more orange into the stem, duplex in stem; spines at first pallid then brown to orange-brown, decurrent. |
Spores: Light brown, bluntly tuberculate, sub-spherical, non-amyloid, 5.5-6.5 x 4.5-5.0 µm. Basidia 4 spored; cystidia absent. Odour: Not distinctive. Taste: Not distinctive. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Late Summer to Autumn. |
| Qualifying criterion: 4.4: rare species associated with native pinewoods |
| Justification: current BAP action for stipitate hydnoid fungi needs to be continued |
| Threats: habitat destruction, vehicle compaction, mountain biking, track maintenance, felling of host trees, eutrophication |
| Action Required: Survey and monitoring; protection against habitat loss and degradation; site liaison and management; ecological research. |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records
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Total records: 121 |
| Earliest recording: 1874 | |
| Latest recording: 2006 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 18(1); 62(2); 92(7); 95(25); 96(86) | |
| Pre-1960: 47 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 74 records |