Summary:
Features include a disc-shaped to lens-shaped, translucent to white fruiting body up to 0.12cm across, and growth on dung of deer, goat, moose, porcupine and rabbit. The description is derived from Kimbrough(1) who says it is one of the most common of the discomycetes living on dung.
Coprotus glaucellus is found in ON, FL, MI, NJ, NY, CO, Europe, and Mexico, (Kimbrough), and BC and CO, (Larsen).
Upper surface:
0.01-0.12cm, discoid to lenticular, broadly attached; translucent to white, becoming slightly yellowish on drying
Stem:
absent
Microscopic:
spores 7.5-9 x 4.5-5.5 microns, elliptic, 1-seriate to 2-seriate, each with 1 de Bary bubble; asci 8-spored, 40-55 x 8-12 microns, cylindric, rounded in upper part, narrowed in lower part, ending on a short stem; paraphyses filiform [thread-like], colorless, septate, strongly uncinate [hooked] at apices, 1.5 microns in lower part, slightly wider in upper part, without oil droplets
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