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

synonyms: Glazed Cup
Humaria hemisphaerica Mushroom
Ref No: 7915
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Humaria hemisphaerica2 Mushroom
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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