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 Hydnum crocidens var. badium
BiostatusPresent in region - Indigenous. Endemic
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Caption: Hydnum crocidens var. badius; k. basidium; l. spores. |  | 
Owner: Herb. PDD | 
Owner: Herb. PDD | |
Article: McNabb, R.F.R. (1971). Some new and revised taxa of New Zealand Basidiomycetes (Fungi). New Zealand Journal of Botany 9(2): 355-370 (http://www.rsnz.org/publish/abstracts.php).
Description: Pileus l-3.5-(5.5) cm diam., applanate or centrally depressed at maturity, occasionally with a deep central excavation, brown, dark brown, or dark reddish brown, surface rupturing to expose the sordid white context beneath at times. Hymenial surface pallid fawn, drying greyish orange; spines non-decurrent but reaching stipe, to 10mm long. crowded, pallid fawn with pinkish tints. Stipe central, occasionally excentric or lateral, 2-4 cm long, 4-12 mm diam., sordid white, creamy brown, or pallid pinkish fawn; flesh concolorous with exterior.
Spores globose, subglobose, or occasionally broadly elliptical, hyaline, thin-walled, readily collapsing, 8-9.5 x 7.5-9 µm, smooth.
Habitat: Gregarious or occasionally caespitose under Leptospermum
Notes: Var. badius can be readily distinguished from other varieties of H. crocidens by the dark coloured pileus. It has been found only under Leptospermum.
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