''Hydnum crocidens'' is a species of fungus in the family

Hydnaceae The Hydnaceae are a family of fungi in the order Cantharellales. Originally the family encompassed all species of fungi that produced basidiocarps (fruit bodies) having a hymenium (spore-bearing surface) consisting of slender, downward-hanging ta ...

native to Australia. It was described in 1890 by

Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (12 July 1825, in Horning, Norfolk – 12 November 1914, in Southsea, Hampshire) was an English botanist and mycologist who was, at various points, a London schoolteacher, a Kew mycologist, curator at the India Museum, jour ...

from material collected around Port Phillip Bay. Genetic analysis shows it to be closely related to a lineage containing ''H. rufescens'' and its close relatives.

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Fungi described in 1890 Fungi native to Australia crocidens Taxa named by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke Fungus species {{Agaricomycetes-stub