Sarcodon
Braunsporstachelinge ( Sarcodon )
The Braunsporstachelinge include fleshy hedgehog mushrooms with compact fruiting bodies. The spore powder is brown in color ( hence the name ) and the spores are typical nodular shaped. All species are ground dwellers.
The type species is the hawk fungus ( Sarcodon imbricatus ).
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Features
Macroscopic characteristics
The articulated in hat and stem fruiting bodies appear singly or are fused together. Boy hats have a velvety- felt-like surface that is patterned later more or less verkahlt and partly fibrous to scaly. They usually have yellow to brown colors. The hymenophore on the Hutunterseite is prickly. The spines are first whitish, then stained purple-brown spores at maturity by the spore powder. Stick and hat are mostly the same color. The meat has a fleshy brittle, but no korkige consistency. It is ungezont, not duplex and shows a whitish to brownish, even pink to violet as well as in the stem base sometimes gray-green color. The smell is often flour -like, but never like maggi after lovage.
Microscopic characteristics
The Hyphensystem is monomitisch. The Trama consists of inflated hyphae with or without buckles on the septa. At the clavate basidia each 4 spores mature. The brownish spores are elliptical in shape or have an irregular outline. They have a warty, nodular or laminated with large buckles surface. Zystiden missing.
Ecology
Braunsporstachelinge live terrestrial and are Mykorrhizabildner. The majority of the species grows in coniferous forests, but also in mixed forests and pure deciduous forests can be found representatives of the genus.
Species
In Europe, approximately 20 species occur or are expected there: