Local name: No local name known

Edibility:Unknown.

Habitat: Solitary to gregarious and terrestrial in moss and on rotting woods or leaf litter.

Description: Fruiting bodies: Clavate, 4 -7 cm tall. Head: Oblong, flattened, often grooved, 1-3 cm tall and up to 2cm wide, black, velvety from projecting hairs or spines. Stem: 3-8cm tall and up to3 mm thick, round, equal, black and conspicuously pubescent.

Comments:Trichoglossum hirsutum is one of several black earth tongues. All require a microscope for positive identification. Velvety hairs on both the stem and fertile "head" are the primary distinguishing feature of Trichoglossum species. This character separates the genus from Geoglossum, whose species have a relatively smooth surface, but are otherwise similar in appearance.