Bed-jacket vs Sweetgrass Hydnellum

Alectryon tomentosus compared with Hydnellum suaveolens

Key Differences

• Bed-jacket is Least Concern while Sweetgrass Hydnellum is Extinct.

Taxonomic Classification

Rank	Bed-jacket	Sweetgrass Hydnellum
Kingdom	Plantae (Plants)	Fungi (Fungi)
Phylum	Magnoliophyta (Flowering Plants)	Basidiomycota (Club Fungi)
Class	Magnoliopsida (Dicots)	Agaricomycetes (Mushrooms)
Order	Sapindales (Sapindales)	Thelephorales (Thelephorales)
Family	Sapindaceae	Bankeraceae
Genus	Alectryon	Hydnellum
Species	Alectryon tomentosus	Hydnellum suaveolens

Conservation Status

Bed-jacket

LC — Least Concern

Sweetgrass Hydnellum

EX — Extinct

Physical Characteristics

Attribute	Bed-jacket	Sweetgrass Hydnellum
Diet	—	—
Average Lifespan	—	—
Average Length	—	—
Average Weight	—	—

Habitat & Geographic Range

Bed-jacket

Habitat

Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.

Sweetgrass Hydnellum

Habitat

Typically found in forest floors, decomposing wood, and soil ecosystems.

Range

Distributed across Belgium, Norway, Sweden, and United States.

Bed-jacket

The Bed-jacket (Alectryon tomentosus) is a species in the genus Alectryon. It is currently classified as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List. Typically found in diverse terrestrial habitats from tropical forests to temperate regions.