MycoKey : the genus Auriscalpium

Generic short diagnoses: Unmistakable, smallish, brown velvety, hydnoid fungus with excentric stipe springing from buried conifer cones; spores amyloid, ornamented.


Species example:


Auriscalpium vulgare - DK: koglepigsvamp UK: Earpick Fungus
Photo and © Jens H. Petersen
Denmark, JHP-00.373

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