Hydnellum fuscoindicum
Hydnellum fuscoindicum is a species of tooth fungus in the genus "Hydnellum". It is found in the Pacific Northwest in moss around western hemlocks. It produces fruit bodies with a violet-black cap, violet flesh, and violet spines on the cap underside. The odor and taste are very farinaceous. The fungus was first described by Kenneth A. Harrison in 1964 as a species of "Hydnum", then transferred to "Sarcodon" in 1967 by Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. He placed this species in section "Violacei" of "Sarcodon", along with "H. fuligineoviolaceum" and "H. joeides".