Echinodontium tinctorium

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Echinodontium tinctorium
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Russulales
Family: Echinodontiaceae
Genus: Echinodontium
Species:
E. tinctorium
Binomial name
Echinodontium tinctorium
(Ellis & Everh.) Ellis & Everh. (1900) [as tinctorius]
Synonyms
  • Fomes tinctoriusEllis & Everh. (1895)
  • Hydnum tinctorium(Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd (1898)
  • Scindalma tinctorium(Ellis & Everh.) Kuntze (1898)
  • Hydnofomes tinctorius(Ellis & Everh.) Lloyd (1920)
Echinodontium tinctorium
Mycological characteristics
Teeth icon.png Teeth on hymenium
No cap icon.svgNo distinct cap
NA cap icon.svg Hymenium attachment is irregular or not applicable
NA cap icon.svgLacks a stipe
Transparent spore print icon.svg
 Spore print is white
Parasitic fungus.svgEcology is parasitic
Mycomorphbox Inedible.pngEdibility is inedible

Echinodontium tinctorium, commonly known as the Indian paint fungus or toothed conk, [1] is a species of fungus in the family Echinodontiaceae. It is a plant pathogen. Found on tree species such as grand fir (and indicating a rotten core). [2]

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Description

Growing to 8–20 centimetres (3–8 in) wide, [3] it can be identified by the grayish spines of its lower surface. [2] The flesh is reddish-brown and woody. [3]

Similar species

Similar species include the rare Echinodontium ballouii , as well as various conks which have pores rather than teeth below. [3]

Uses

Native Americans used the red interior as a pigment. [2] Some Plateau Indian tribes applied the fungus to skin to prevent it from chapping. [4] It is inedible. [5]

References

  1. ↑ Arora, David (1986). Mushrooms demystified: a comprehensive guide to the fleshy fungi (Second ed.). Berkeley: Ten Speed Press. ISBN   978-0-89815-169-5.
  2. 1 2 3 Arno, Stephen F.; Hammerly, Ramona P. (2020) [1977]. Northwest Trees: Identifying & Understanding the Region's Native Trees (field guide ed.). Seattle: Mountaineers Books. pp. 133–134. ISBN   1-68051-329-X. OCLC   1141235469.
  3. 1 2 3 Audubon (2023). Mushrooms of North America. Knopf. p. 149. ISBN   978-0-593-31998-7.
  4. ↑ Hunn, Eugene S. (1990). Nch'i-Wana, "The Big River": Mid-Columbia Indians and Their Land. University of Washington Press. p. 353. ISBN   0-295-97119-3.
  5. ↑ Phillips, Roger (2010). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of North America. Buffalo, NY: Firefly Books. p. 328. ISBN   978-1-55407-651-2.


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