Spent a week in Madeira in April and despite intensive searching was unable to find a single cap or gilled fungus. I found several of the smaller bracket fungi including coriolis and bjerkandera which appear elsewhere on these pages. This was my first find, a relatively large bracket, possibly a phellinus

On an unidentifiable dead tree (mixed laurel and pine forest) was this "antler" or "staghorn" type fungus which bears similarities to Ramaria fennica but then that doesn't grow on trees (or does it?). I've tried internet searches for "madeira fungi" and failed to find a single fungi image. I've tried many book searches and found just one book on rust fungi...not exactly what I wanted.

Heres another view. Astonishingly when we got back to our hire car which had been parked in a quiet Madeiran village (Santa da Serra) we found the car totally surrounded by a huge market and one of the stalls had a big basket of this stuff for sale so one has to presume it is edible. I decided not to risk it.

and this is the last bracket, possibly a ganoderma but thats a pure guess

Another view of this incredibly hard and dense fungus