Bisporella citrina (Batsch ex Fr.) Korf & S.E. Carp.
yellow fairy cups
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
yellow fairy cups
Helotiaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
Features include tiny shallow yellow cups growing in large numbers on dead hardwoods, stemless or with short stem, and microscopic characters. Bisporella citrina is commonly identified in the Pacific Northwest.
Microscopic:
spores 8-12 x 3-3.6 microns, elliptic, smooth, colorless, with 2 drops, with single septum when mature, irregularly uniseriate; asci 8-spored, 100-125 x 7-8 microns, amyloid; paraphyses filiform [thread-like], tips with slight clavate thickenings, (Breitenbach), spores 9-14 x 3-5 microns, elliptic, with oil drops at each end, biseriate, often becoming 1-septate; asci 8-spored, up to 135 x 10 microns, cylindric-clavate, pore not distinctly blue with iodine; paraphyses slender, slightly widened upward and containing large yellow oil drops, (Dennis)
Notes:
It is found throughout North America, July to November, (Lincoff(2)). The University of British Columbia has collections from BC and MN and the University of Washington has collections from WA, OR, AK, and New Zealand. Cornell (CUP) has collections from ON, MD, Denmark, Finland, France, Greenland, and Hungary.
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Bisporella sulfurina, illustrated by Desjardin(6) for California (as B. sulphurina), forms smaller cups (0.05-0.15cm across), gregariously or in small clusters on wood, growing "on or near old, black crustose fruitbodies of a pyrenomycete" - it has narrower spores 8-11 x 2-2.5 microns. O. Ceska has identified B. sulfurina from BC. But Bisporella sulfurina was synonymized with Calycina citrina by Baral(2) in 2013 who synonymized Bisporella citrina with Calycina citrina as well.Habitat
gregarious and cespitose on dead branches of hardwoods, usually covering entire branches, (Breitenbach), gregarious, on wood or erumpent from bark, (Dennis), in large numbers on dead wood of hardwoods (Phillips), spring to fall (Lincoff(1)), in large numbers on hardwood branches that have lost their bark (Trudell)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Calycella citrina Hedw.) Boud.
Helvella confusa Harmaja
Peziza leucomelas Pers.