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Wednesday, 19 August 2015

Ochre spreading tooth - Steccherinum ochraceum (Pers.) Gray (1821) - Cyprus

Steccherinum ochraceum, known as ochre spreading tooth, is a hydnoid fungus of the Phanerochaetaceae family. It is a plant pathogen infecting sweetgum trees. It was originally described as Hydnum ochraceum by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1792, and later transferred to the genus Steccherinum in 1821 by Samuel Frederick Gray in 1821. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Photos Athalassa 18/3/2010 by George Konstantinou




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