Phellodon sinclairii
Species of fungus
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Phellodon sinclairii is a native tooth fungus found in beech forests of New Zealand. It was first described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1867 as a species of Hydnum in Joseph Dalton Hooker's work Handbook of the New Zealand Flora.[2] The type locality was on Maungatua. Gordon Herriot Cunningham transferred the species to the genus Phellodon in 1958.[3]
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| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Basidiomycota |
| Class: | Agaricomycetes |
| Order: | Thelephorales |
| Family: | Bankeraceae |
| Genus: | Phellodon |
| Species: | P. sinclairii |
| Binomial name | |
| Phellodon sinclairii | |
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The fruit bodies of P. sinclairii have caps up to 3 cm (1.2 in) in diameter when single, or up to 7 cm (2.8 in) when the caps are fused together in groups. The cap surface is black with a whitish margin. The crowded spines on the cap underside are up to 2 mm long, and run decurrently down the stipe. Initially whitish, they become gray in age. Dried specimens have the odour of fenugreek.[4]
