Hydnellum glaucopus

A species formerly known as Sarcodon glaucopus and associated with pine woods.

Pileipellis hyphae filamentous, interwoven, 6-15 µm wide, with abundant brown intracellular pigment; subhymenial hyphae hyaline, 3-6 µm wide, septate without clamps (simple septa).

Cystidia and other sterile hymenial elements absent.

Basidia subcylindrical to clavate, 35-40 µm long and 5-7 µm wide, without basal clamps, 4-spored.

Spores subglobose, ornamented with coarse warts, hyaline to faintly pigmented brownish, with a large central oil droplet, inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.