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Hairy Hexagonia

Hexagonia hydnoides

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Texas.January 305, February 292, March 332, April 629, May 452, June 428, July 321, August 194, September 383, October 330, November 332, December 278.
Texas6,707
United States6,378
Mexico866
Louisiana263
Sinaloa189
Brazil187
Quintana Roo113
Georgia112
Veracruz de Ignacio de la Llave111
Colombia99

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Group and habits

  • Shelf fungus formDescends from a fungal lineage whose members are commonly shelf or bracket fungi.Inferred from its group
  • Grows on woodDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly grow on wood.Inferred from its group
  • Saprotrophic fungusDescends from a fungal lineage whose members commonly decompose dead organic matter.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomFungi Including Lichens · Fungi
PhylumBasidiomycete Fungi · Basidiomycota
ClassMushrooms, Bracket Fungi, Puffballs, and Allies · Agaricomycetes
OrderShelf Fungi · Polyporales
FamilyBracket Fungi · Polyporaceae
GenusHexagonia

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