| Remarks (internal) : | Scopoli first described this species as having pilei that were above 8.0 cm broad, enlarged, plane, leathery, with rugose or viscid surface and nearly white in color. The stipes were short and thick and the spines violet in color. Also, he mentioned that an agreeable odor persisted over a long period of time. Banker (1913), Coker and Beers (1951), Harrison (1961), Maas Geesteranus (1971), and Baird (1984) listed this species as distinct species of Hydnellum.
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| Description : | Hydnum suaveolens Scopoli. 1772. Fl. Carniol. 2:472.
Representative specimen: NCSU Grand no. 1911.
Macromorphology (preserved, mihi): Sporophore: pileus up to 11.0 cm broad convex to plane, irregular, colliculose to smooth, velutinous to spongy tomentose or matted rarely radially rugose, white (6AI) to brownish gray (6D2) to soot brown (5F5); context not duplex, zonate, concolorous with pileus, except with dark bluish (21F4) zones, taste none odor of anise. Stipe: up to 2.5 x 1.7 cm, central to eccentric, terete with blunt base velutinous to matted, grayish blue (21B5-21E6) or bluish black (21F4), context not duplex zonate, grayish blue (21E6) to dark blue (21F4). Spines: up to 5.0 mm long, decurrent crowded, white (6AI), light brown (7D4) to madeira (8E5) or dark brown (8F5). Chemical reactions: preserved tissue light blue green in KOH or NH4OH. Micromorphology (preserved, mihi): Pileus trama hyphae: up to 6.5 um diam. uninflated, interwoven throughout the context, clamped; gloeoplerous-like hyphae present. Stipe hyphae: up to 5.0 µm diam., uninflated, interwoven throughout the context, clamped gloeoplerous- like hyphae present. Spine trama hyphae: up to 5.0 µm diam. clamped Basidia: (n=20) 22.5-32.5 x 5.0-6.5 µm (X= 27.52 " 6.72 x 5.67 " 0.34 m;, clavate clamped, 4-spored; sterigmata (n=10) 3.5-4.5 µm long (X= 3.82 " 0.41 µm). Basidiospores: (n=20) 4.5-5.0 x 3.5-4.0 µm (X= 4.72 " 0.22 x 3.65 " 0.38 µm), oblong irregular, brownish; ornamentation tuberculate, angular nodulose; hilar appendage oblique. | |