When: 2007-12-07
Collection location: Buttonwood, south Key Largo, Monroe Co., Florida, USA [Click for map]
Who: Jason Hollinger (pellaea)
Herbarium specimen available

Species Lists:
Mushrooms of Key Largo (39)

Notes: large shelf fungus, one set on long-dead ficus root and another on a discarded 2×4, KOH?
ST: lateral but v short
CAP: 80mm wide, sticks out 60mm, fan-shaped to semi-circ, fairly flat on top with sl depression to attachment and margins somewhat convex, faintly broadly zoned but obscured, very densely black bristly!, hairs twisty and somewhat tufted to 5mm or more long
FLESH: brown, 2mm thick, v tough and rigid
PORE: smoky brown, smooth to somewhat undulating, 1mm thin ragged ster marg, darker brown inside marg, 4 per mm, to 3mm deep, flesh = surface
SPORE: too long dead

There’s hairy, and then there’s this thing! Can’t find anthing resembling it in Demystified (no surprise). I’ve seen it a number of times on various substrates, but never fresh.

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Proposed Name		User		Community Vote
Hexagonia hydnoides (Sw.) M. Fidalgo		pellaea		(3)
Used references: Suggested by two people, but failed to get confirmation from contact in Miami.

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Observation created: Mon Dec 10 09:00:19 -0800 2007
Last modified: Mon Dec 10 09:00:19 -0800 2007
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