Aleuria aurantia (Pers.) Fuckel
Orange peel fungus

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Description:
cup fungus
Fruiting Body: apothecium up to 10 cm; no stalk, sessile. Spore Print Color: white. Spores: ascospores 17-24 x 9-11 µm, ellipsoid, reticulate, hyaline, with two oil drops.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: fruits during hot weather, cap surface cracks in areolate pattern; partial veil remnants hang from cap margin

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not common

Substrate: on soil

Habitat: woodlands

Fruiting Season: summer, fall

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Pezizales
 

 

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