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Species Information
Summary: Features include a stemmed cup that is orange to yellow-orange with pale orange to white underside and stem, and guttulate reticulate spores that lack an apiculus. (Castellano).
It is found in WA, ID, CA and known from Europe and Japan, (Castellano). There are collections from OR deposited at Oregon State University. It was photographed by Kem Luther on Vancouver Island in BC.
Upper surface: up to 1-2.5cm wide, shallowly broadly cup-shaped to nearly flat when old, compressed to regular; bright orange to yellow-orange, margin incurved becoming straight to flaring when old, sometimes cracking when old, lacking prominent hairs, (Castellano)
Flesh: thin, brittle, (Arora)
Underside: pale orange to white, typically with inconspicuous colorless appressed hairs, (Castellano)
Stem: up to 0.5-2cm in length and 0.2-0.5cm in width, narrowing downwards, often several stems together; colored as exterior; also with hairs, (Castellano), 1-3cm x 0.2-0.5cm, equal or narrowing downward; colored like exterior; base often arising from dense mass of white mycelium that may bind several stems together, (Arora)
Microscopic: spores 18-23.6(26.3) x 9-11.8 microns (not including ornamentation), "ornamented with a reticulum, the meshes 1.5 to 4 microns broad, mostly 6-sided, ridges to 1.5 microns tall, apiculus absent", guttulate; asci 8-spored, thin-walled; paraphyses "curved or straight, containing orange granules, fleetingly green when mounted in Melzer''s reagent", (Castellano), spores 20-23 x 11-13 microns, elliptic, coarsely reticulate at maturity, (Arora)
Habitat / Range
scattered to gregarious or cespitose in duff of moist, relatively undisturbed, older coniferous forests, (Castellano), gregarious, often in small clusters, on ground or moss in woods (usually under conifers), (Arora)
Similar Species
Neottiella rutilans is a similar moss-inhabiting species with slightly larger spores and longer hairs on the underside, (Arora).
