''Hydnum ellipsosporum'' is a species of fungus in the family

Hydnaceae The Hydnaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cantharellales. Originally the family encompassed all species of fungi that produced basidiocarps (fruit bodies) having a hymenium (spore-bearing surface) consisting of slender, downward-hanging ta ...

that was described from Germany in 2004. It differs from '' H. repandum'' by the shape and length of its spores, which are

ellipsoid An ellipsoid is a surface that may be obtained from a sphere by deforming it by means of directional scalings, or more generally, of an affine transformation. An ellipsoid is a quadric surface; that is, a surface that may be defined as the ...

and measure 9–11 by 6–7.5 µm. Compared to ''H. repandum'', it has smaller fruit bodies, with cap diameters ranging from wide.

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* Fungi described in 2004 Fungi of Europe ellipsosporum {{Agaricomycetes-stub