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Hydnellum caeruleum (Hornem.) P. Karst., Meddn Soc. Fauna Flora fenn. 5: 41 (1879)

Hydnum caeruleum Hornem., Fl. Danic. 8(23): 7, tab. 1374 (1808)
Hydnum suaveolens var. caeruleum (Hornem.) Fr., Epicr. syst. mycol. (Uppsala): 507 (1838) [1836-1838]
Calodon caeruleus (Hornem.) P. Karst., Bidr. Känn. Finl. Nat. Folk 37: 106 (1882)

Habitat: With Pinus sylvestris in Caledonian pinewoods, and rarely with Picea spp. in plantations. Also Arctostaphylos spp.

Notes: Rarely reported. Known from widely scattered localities in Scotland.

Distribution: E: r, S: !

Vouchers: England: K(M) 140109; Scotland: K(M) 40697

Descriptions, Lists & Icons:
D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Roberts, P.J. & Spooner, B.M., British Chanterelles and Tooth Fungi: an account of the British Cantharelloid and stipitate Hydnoid Fungi, (Ed.: Pegler D.N., Roberts P.J., and Spooner B.M.): 114 pp. (1997), p. 76-77
D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 222, pl. 259
D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 310

Conservation Status: Vulnerable (Red Data List, Ing 1992); Near Threatened (Red Data List, Evans et al. 2006); BAP species; Biodiversity Action Plan

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