{{Short description|Species of fungus}} {{Speciesbox | image = Phellodon sinclairii 13.JPG | image_caption = | genus = Phellodon | species = sinclairii | authority = (Berk.) G.Cunn. (1958) | synonyms_ref = <ref name="urlFungorum synonymy: Phellodon sinclairii"/> | synonyms = *''Hydnum sinclairii'' <small>Berk. (1867)</small> }}

'''''Phellodon sinclairii''''' is a native tooth fungus found in beech forests of New Zealand. It was first described by Miles Joseph Berkeley in 1867 as a species of ''Hydnum'' in Joseph Dalton Hooker's work ''Handbook of the New Zealand Flora''.<ref name="Hooker 1867"/> The type locality was on Maungatua. Gordon Herriot Cunningham transferred the species to the genus ''Phellodon'' in 1958.<ref name="Cunningham 1958"/>

The fruit bodies of ''P.&nbsp;sinclairii'' have caps up to {{convert|3|cm|in|abbr=on}} in diameter when single, or up to {{convert|7|cm|in|abbr=on}} when the caps are fused together in groups. The cap surface is black with a whitish margin. The crowded spines on the cap underside are up to 2&nbsp;mm long, and run decurrently down the stipe. Initially whitish, they become gray in age. Dried specimens have the odour of fenugreek.<ref name="Maas Geesteranus 1971"/>

==References== {{Reflist|refs=

<ref name="Cunningham 1958">{{cite journal |author=Cunningham GH. |title=Hydnaceae of New Zealand. Part I. The pileate genera ''Beenakia'', ''Dentinum'', ''Hericium'', ''Hydnum'', ''Phellodon'' and ''Steccerinum'' |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand |volume=85 |issue=4 |year=1958 |url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_85/rsnz_85_04_006410.html |pages=585–601}}</ref>

<ref name="Hooker 1867">{{cite book |author=Hooker JD. |title=Handbook of the New Zealand Flora. Part II |year=1867 |location=London UK |publisher=Reeve & Company |page=756 |url=https://archive.org/stream/handbooknewzeal00hookgoog#page/n370/mode/2up}}</ref>

<ref name="Maas Geesteranus 1971">{{cite journal |author=Maas Geesteranus RA. |title=Hydnaceous fungi of the eastern old world |journal=Verhandelingen Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Afdeling Natuurkunde |year=1971 |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=1–176 (see p.&nbsp;40)}}</ref>

<ref name="urlFungorum synonymy: Phellodon sinclairii">{{cite web |title=GSD Species Synonymy: ''Phellodon sinclairii'' (Berk.) G. Cunn. |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/GSD/GSDspecies.asp?RecordID=302827 |publisher=Species Fungorum. CAB International |accessdate=2016-02-03}}</ref>

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==External links== *{{IndexFungorum|302827}} *[http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/fungi/family/bankeraceae/banke01.htm The Hidden Forest] Photographs

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Category:Inedible fungi sinclairii Category:Fungi described in 1867 Category:Fungi of New Zealand Category:Taxa named by Miles Joseph Berkeley Category:Fungus species

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