New Zealand Map Grid:
2717653E 6030986N (WGS84 -40.901343 175.465101)
Habitat:
podocarp-broadleaved-beech forest
Specimen notes
Public Note:
Not smelling of fenugreek. Spores pale brown, inamyloid, spiny 6x4um. Spines white, bundles of cystidia? Cap tissue violet then dark green in KOH. Trama white. Looks monomitic (no inflated hyphae, on average 5um diam), unclamped. Taste (dried material) astringent. Context of pileus not zoned (then would be fraudulentum - Australia). Not scrobiculatum as spores not sufficient Q (although Maas-G doesn't figure them that way). Pat thinks other NZFUNGI collections from here, and maybe this one, are Sarcodon ionides (joeides of Europe). However MG's drawings of material from Lake Rotoiti show distinctly flat-topped tuberculate spores, and this does not have them. They have warts. ITS and LSU have mixture of Sarcodon and Hydnellum. They aren't distinguished. Redet this to thwaitsii on basis of Pat's det of an identical coll. This is in the Hydnellum clade (along with some other Sarcodons). Is the original tea-tree S. crabonarius different to this beech version? S. thwaitesii is not a synonym.