conidiophore_color_pale
paler
There are two fruitbodies, one mounted to show the upper and one the lower surface. The latter is indeed two inches wide and both appear to have been broadly attached to the substrate. Further, there is a short decurrent portion at the base, about 1-2 mm wide, appearing as a ridge down which the pores extend. The fruitbodies are dimidiate with an acute margin, and are thin and rigid with a glabrous, dull brown, purplish, densely concentrically-sulcate zonate surface, having an almost waxy lustre, and in addition marked with dense radiating streaks (virgate). The latter feature is seen under a lens to be due to slightly raised, innate, darker fibrillose strands of hyphae. The fruitbody mounted to show the pores is paler above with more obvious colour zonation and has a dark purplish almost black stain at the base, reminiscent of H. discopoda. Pores 13 per cm, hexagonal, with a greyish lilac interior. In the specimen mounted to show the upper surface the pores are larger and 10 per cm. There is also another difference for the pores of the latter specimen lack hyphal pegs while those of the fruitbody mounted with pores uppermost have conspicuous hyphal pegs. (s.l.) Flesh thin, distinctly rusty-brown.
Hexagonia tenuis var. natalensis
Hexagonia tenuis