Rogers Mushrooms - Humaria hemisphaerica Mushroom


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Humaria hemisphaerica. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Glazed Cup

Ref No: 7915
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Ref No: 7916
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location: North America, Europe

edibility: Inedible

fungus colour: Grey to beige

normal size: Less than 5cm

cap type: Cup shaped

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows on the ground, Grows on wood

Humaria hemisphaerica (Wigg. ex Fr.) Fuckel syn. Peziza hemisphaerica Wigg. ex S. F. Gray Glazed Cup. Cup 0.5–3cm across, remaining cup-shaped, sessile, inner surface whitish, outer densely covered in stiff, thick-walled, dark brown septate hairs with acute apices, 500 x 20µ, or up to 1mm long at the margin. Flesh whitish. Asci 350 x 20µ, not blued by iodine. Spores broadly elliptical and coarsely warted, containing two oil drops, 20–40 x 10–12µ. Habitat on soil or damp rotten wood. Season summer to autumn. Occasional. Not edible. Distribution, America and Europe.

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