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Sarcodon glaucopusPhoto: Gilbert BovayBack to the BAP list |
DescriptionGeneral: Medium to large, brown or grey-brown cap with spiny under surface; solitary or in groups, often fused, on soil, in spruce or pinewoods and among bilberry (Vaccinium).Dimensions: Cap 4-12cm dia; stem 3-6cm tall x 1.0-2.5cm dia. Fruit Body: Cap dirty brown or grey-brown with lilaceous tinges, blackish with age; coarsely wavy; stem pallid pinkish-brown, blue-green towards the base, equal or tapered towards the base, sometimes eccentric, irregularly bent. Flesh whitish with pinkish tinge at maturity, grey-green towards the stem base, firm. Spines: Ochre-brown to dark red-brown, unevenly decurrent, tips branched. Stem: Whitish, cylindrical, striate and pruinose above the annulus, conspicuously scaly below, scales adpressed, dark brown at the tips or universally brown; annulus membranous, drooping becoming purplish with spores; flesh whitish or pallid brown along cavity, hollow. |
Spores: Brown, with coarse flat tubercles, sub-spherical, 5.5-6.0 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 microhabitat of native pinewoods |
| Justification: current BAP action needs to continue |
| Threats: destruction of habitat, trampling, mountain biking, felling of host trees, eutrophication |
| Action Required: Survey and monitoring; protection against habitat loss and degradation; ecological assessment, taxonomic research. |
Statistics:UK (excluding NI & CI) fungus records |
Total records: 56 |
| Earliest recording: 1990 | |
| Latest recording: 2007 | |
| Vice Counties and (frequency): 95(3); 96(53) | |
| Pre-1960: 0 records | |
| NBN Gateway grid map | Post-1960: 56 records |