Sarcodon wrightii

{{Short description|Species of fungus}}

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| genus = Sarcodon

| species = wrightii

| authority = (Berk. & M.A.Curtis) Maas Geest. (1967)

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| synonyms = *Hydnum wrightii Berk. & M.A.Curtis (1860)

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Sarcodon wrightii is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. It was first described in 1860 by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis as Hydnum wrightii. They were sent a specimen collected from Japan as part of the North Pacific Exploring and Surveying Expedition (1853–56). Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus transferred it to the genus Sarcodon in 1967. The fungus produces roughly spherical spores that are tuberculate (covered in warts) and measure 5.5–6.5 by 4.5–5.5 μm.

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{{cite journal |author=Berkeley MJ, Curtis MA. |title=Characters of new fungi, collected in the North Pacific Exploring Expedition by Charles Wright |journal=Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |year=1860 |volume=4 |pages=111–130 (see p. 122) |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3065085}}

{{cite journal |author=Maas Geesteranus RA. |title=Notes on Hydnums, VI |journal=Proceedings van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Section C |year=1967 |volume=70 |pages=61–72}}

{{cite web |title=GSD Species Synonymy: Sarcodon wrightii (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Maas Geest. |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/GSD/GSDspecies.asp?RecordID=323094 |publisher=Species Fungorum. CAB International |accessdate=2015-01-21}}

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