Bisporella citrina (Batsch.:Fr.) Korf & Carp.
Lemon drops; Yellow fairy cups

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Description:
cup fungus
Fruiting Body: apothecium up to 3 mm diameter; stalk a short base. Spores: ascospores 9-14 x 3-5 µm, elliptical, smooth, hyaline, 1-septate.

Diagnostic macroscopic feature: gregarious yellow apothecia on down logs

Diagnostic microscopic feature: spores sometimes with two cells

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very common

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on down logs, gregarious; saprobes

Habitat: woodlands

Fruiting Season: summer, especially abundant in fall

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Helotiales
 

 

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