Sarcodon Quel . ex P.Karst., Revue mycol., Toulouse 3 (no. 9): 20 (1881).

Type species.

Sarcodon imbricatus (L.:Fr.) P.Karst. (1881)

Basionym.

Hydnum imbricatum L.:Fr. (1753).

Basidiomata with pileus and stipe, single or concrescent; pileus thin to thick, at first smooth and velutinous, when mature smooth or scaly, brownish; stipe thick, solid, mostly short; hymenophore hydnoid, usually strongly decurrent; context soft and brittle; hyphal system monomitic, septa with clamps, context hyphae inflated; cystidia lacking; basidia narrowly clavate, producing four sterigmata; basidiospores with irregular outline, more or less lobed, verrucose, brownish. Terrestrial, forming ectomycorrhiza with forest trees.