Scutellinia erinaceus Kuntze
Eyelash cup

Scutella means dish

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Description:
cup fungus
Fruiting Body: apothecium up to 5 mm; stalk none, sessile. Spores: ascospores 10-11 x 18-20 µm, ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline.

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uncommon

Nutritional Mode: saprobe

Substrate: on wet rotting wood

Habitat: deciduous woods

Fruiting Season: summer

  
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Order: Pezizales
 

 

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