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Phellodon confluensPhoto: ABFG LibraryBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Medium-sized blackish-brown irregular plate-like cap with white margin, spiny under surface and dark spongy stem; solitary or in groups, typically fused, on soil in broad leaf and coniferous woods, often favouring sweet chestnut.Dimensions: Cap 3-10cm dia; stem 2-4cm tall x 1-2cm dia. Fruit Body: Cap at first whitish soon becoming greyish or blackish-brown with whitish margin; indistinctly zoned, shallowly infundibuliform, rosette-shaped, warty, radially wrinkled and downy, margin smooth sometimes with secondary caps; stem concolorous or darker, equal, tomentose, typically several fused together; flesh: greyish-brown, duplex in the stem; soft or corky; spines at first whitish or pallid then grey, more or less decurrent. |
Spores: Hyaline, finely spiny, sub-spherical, non-amyloid, 3.5-4.5 x 3-4 µm . Basidia 4 spored; cystidia absent. Odour: Fresh, not distinctive; dry, spicy. Taste: Not Distinctive. Chemical Tests: None. Occurrence: Late Summer to Autumn. |
| Qualifying criterion: 4.4: rare species associated with microhabitat |
| 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 especially sweet chestnut, eutrophication |
| Action Required: Survey and monitoring; protection against habitat loss and degradation; site liaison and management; ecological research. |
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Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records |
Total records: 126 |
| Earliest recording: 1879 | |
| Latest recording: 2007 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 1(3); 5(1); 11(27); 15(1); 16(10); 17(23); 22(25); 24(4); 27(3); 48(1); 60(1); 63(1); 88(2); 92(1); 96(9); 103(3) | |
| Pre-1960: 8 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 118 records |