Auriscalpium
The ear spoon sting Inge ( Auriscalpium ) are the type genus of the family of the ear spoon Stache Ling relatives ( Auriscalpiaceae ). The fungi have small, braunsamtige hats with a spiky ( hydnoiden ) hymenophore and a more or less laterally accreting stem. The spores are amyloid and ornamented warty to spiny. The ear spoon - Stache Ling ( Auriscalpium vulgare SF Gray ) is the only occurring in Central Europe type and also the type species of the genus. The fungus grows on conifer cones.
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Features
Macro features
The fruiting bodies are divided into hat and a more or less laterally ansitz forming stem. The kidney- shaped hat is 7-20 mm wide and curved to flat. The dull brown, more or less smooth top surface is dry and shaggy hairy to tomentose - velvety. The hymenophore is like the bread - fungal prickly stubble ( hydnoid ). The sting are whitish, dull brown or gray. The non- stick ringte measures 20-140 × 1-3 mm. The fungus has a tough meat ( context) and a white to off-white powder spores.
Micro-features
The ellipsoid, amyloid spores are warty or spiny ornamentation and not cyanophil. They are somewhat thick-walled, and measure 4.5-5.5 × 3.5-4.5 microns. The basidia are 4- sporig and have at their basal end buckles. Also cystidia are present. The Hyphensystem is dimitisch. There are Skeletthyphen and 3-5 microns wide, gloeoplere hyphae present, which protrude as club-shaped or pointed Gloeozystiden to the hymenium. The hat skin ( Pileipellis ) is a Trichoderma or a Konioderm. The Hymenophoraltrama is regular.
Ecology and distribution
In Central Europe, only one type Auriscalpium vulgatum happens that grows saprobiontisch on softwood, or buried on pintle. Species that occur in New Zealand, South America or Asia, can also decompose hardwood. Worldwide there are about 16 species.
System
1821 Gray separated from the genus Auriscalpium of the genus Hydnum to Linnaeus had placed the species in 1753 because of their spiky Hymenophors.
The genus is phylogenetically with both the genus Gloidon whose species have effus reflexes fruiting bodies, as also related to the monotypic genus Dentipratulum, which also hydnoide but sociable growing fruit body has.