Hydnellum fuscoindicum, commonly known as the violet hedgehog,[3] is a species of tooth fungus in the genus Hydnellum.

It is found in the Pacific Northwest in moss around western hemlocks.

[4] It produces fruit bodies with a violet-black cap, violet flesh, and violet spines on the cap underside.

[4] The fungus was first described by Kenneth A. Harrison in 1964 as a species of Hydnum,[5] 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.