Description:
cup fungus
Fruiting Body: apothecium up to 2 cm diameter; stalk short, or sessile. Spores: ascospores 18-30 x 4-6 µm, fusiform, smooth, hyaline, multiseptate.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: purple cup fungus on damp logs

Diagnostic microscopic feature: differs from A. sarcoides in larger ascocarps and longer spores

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on damp, rotting logs; saprobes

Habitat: woodlands

Fruiting Season: summer, fall