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bracket fungus

Hexagonia tenuis

Description:

A hard, honey-combed fungus growing on a dead branch just fallen to the ground. The ID is provisional.

Habitat:

Growing on a dead branch of matoa (Pometia pinnata) in a large semi-urban yard & garden in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.

Notes:

http://cemachampi.blogs.sudouest.fr/medi... (from http://cemachampi.blogs.sudouest.fr/arch... )

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4 Comments

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 9 years ago

Well there are at least four records here: http://biocache.ala.org.au/occurrence/se... for Papua New Guinea anyway. It looks good enough for a provisional ID. Thanks Mark.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

A very good chance of Hexagonia tenuis

Scott Frazier
Scott Frazier 9 years ago

Me too!

Wow cool! What an unusual bracket fungus. Hope to learn what it is.

Scott Frazier
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Scott Frazier

Indonesia

Spotted on Dec 29, 2013
Submitted on Aug 10, 2014

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