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Sarcodon glaucopus (Greenfoot Tooth)

Wikipedia Abstract

Sarcodon glaucopus is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Europe, it was described as new to science in 1969 by mycologists Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus and John Axel Nannfeldt. Fruit bodies contain cyathane diterpenes called glaucopins that have anti-inflammatory activity in laboratory tests. It is considered vulnerable in Switzerland.
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Åträsk 124 Sweden  
Cairngorms 142543 Scotland, United Kingdom
Jämtgaveln 7566 Sweden  

Providers

Mutual (symbiont) 
Pinus sylvestris (Scots pine)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0