10/Jul/2026, 7:32 PM
Kemba, Põhja-Kõrvemaa, Harju, Eesti
Spruce-pine dominant forest, calcareous roadside verge, needle litter
59°27'31.9"N 25°43'15.7"E
🌡️ 20°C ☀️ Sunny 💨 Wind 70° ENE->WSW, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postThelephora caryophyllea
carnation earthfan
- Scientific identification
- Thelephora caryophyllea (Schaeff.) Pers.
- Family
- Thelephoraceae
- Class
- Agaricomycetes
- Genus
- Thelephora
Names across languages
- English: carnation earthfan
- German: Trichterförmiger Warzenpilz
- Finnish: Suppilosilokka
- Estonian: Nelk-lehternahkis
- Russian: Телефора гвоздичная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-07-10.
Hymenium
Smooth to longitudinally wrinkled or striate, brown to purplish-brown, covering the lower/inner surface of the fan- or funnel-like fruit body
Cap
Thin, leathery, rosette- to funnel-shaped, often centrally split or lobed; brown to purplish-brown with paler, frilled, fringed or carnation-like margins
Hymenium Attachment
Not gilled; hymenium spread over the wrinkled underside/inner surface
Stipe
Present, central to slightly eccentric, short, tough, brownish, merging into the funnel-shaped cap
Spore print
Spore print brown to purplish-brown
Ecology
Ectomycorrhizal, growing on sandy soil, mossy ground or needle litter in coniferous and deciduous woodland; solitary or in small groups; summer to late autumn
Ecology
Inedible, thin, tough and leathery
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium
Dimensions
Cap / rosette ∅ usually ~1–5 cm
Flesh
Thin, brown, coriaceous/leathery, unchanging when cut
Chemical reactions
No distinctive KOH macroscopic reaction
Odour
Earthy, slightly sour
Taste
Mild
Microscopy
Spores angular to irregularly lobed, warted or tuberculate, brownish to umber-purple, ~6–10 × 5–8 µm; basidia usually 2–4-sterigmate; hyphae with clamp connections
Overview
Small carnation-like earthfan with a thin brown funnel-shaped rosette
1801). Syn. Meth. Fung. (Göttingen) 2: 565.
Field encounters
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