Hydnellum gracilipes

Hydnellum gracilipes is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described scientifically in 1886 by Petter Karsten, who called it Hydnum gracilipes. He transferred it to the genus Hydnellum in 1879.[3] Fruit bodies of the fungus have a pinkish to reddish-brown colour, a delicate texture described as "felty or papery", and flimsy stipes. Its spores are roughly spherical with a diameter of no more than 5 µm.[4] H. gracilipes is found in northern Europe, where it is mycorrhizal with pine.[5] Collections made in Scotland have been found by lifting the dense ground cover of common heather (Calluna vulgaris), which the fungus seems to use to as support to compensate for its flimsy stipe.[4]

Hydnellum gracilipes
Hydnellum gracilipes
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Basidiomycota
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Order:	Thelephorales
Family:	Bankeraceae
Genus:	Hydnellum
Species:	H. gracilipes
Binomial name
Hydnellum gracilipes (P.Karst.) P.Karst. (1879)
Synonyms[2]
Hydnum gracilipes P.Karst. (1866) Calodon gracilipes (P.Karst.) P.Karst. (1881)

See also

• List of fungi by conservation status

References

1. Brandrud, T.-E. (27 April 2015). "Hydnellum gracilipes". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 27 April 2015. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T76170958A76170972.en.|date= / |doi= mismatch
2. "GSD Species Synonymy: Hydnellum gracilipes (P. Karst.) P. Karst". Species Fungorum. CAB International. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
3. Karsten PA. (1879). "Symbolae ad mycologiam Fennicam. VI". Meddelanden Af Societas Pro Fauna et Flora Fennica (in Latin). 5: 15–46.
4. Ainsworth M. (2011). "Hydnellum cumulatum and H. gracilipes: two overlooked Scottish hydnoids new to Britain". Field Mycology. 12 (4): 139–143. doi:10.1016/j.fldmyc.2011.09.011.
5. Kõljalg U, Renvall P. (2000). "Hydnellum gracilipes: a link between stipitate and resupinate Hymenomycetes". Karstenia. 40 (1–2): 71–77.