Hericium rajendrae

[Newly described in 2019. The description included molecular work.]

Quercus sp. (oak) “living tree-trunk” Singh & Das 2019 (Uttarakhand, India)

“  This species is mainly characterized by reddish white to pale red coloured basidiomata, concolorous spines with acute to sub-acute or rounded apex, pleasant odour, monomitic hyphal system, subglobose to broadly ellipsoid minutely warty basidiospores, abundant gloeocystidia with rounded to acute apex and occurrence on the tree-trunk of living broadleaf tree.”

Singh & Das 2019