Helvella corium (O. Weberb.) Massee
no common name
Helvellaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Helvellaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Species Information
Summary:
Also listed in Cups category. Features include black, cup-shaped fruitbodies, densely fine-hairy exterior, and stem and that is cylindric to shallowly fluted.
Microscopic:
spores 16.1-20.6 x 9.4-13(15) microns, broadly elliptic, smooth, colorless, with one droplet; asci 225-250 x 12.2-17 microns; paraphyses 4.1-8 microns wide at tip, clavate, enlarged gradually to abruptly at tip, brown, contents finely granular, (Abbott)
Notes:
Collections were examined from BC, WA, ID, and also AB, MB, NT, NF, ON, PQ, SK, YT, AK, WI, Svalbard, Sweden, and Poland, and it has been reported from eastern North America and Asia, (Abbott). It has been recorded also from OR (Larsen).
Habitat and Range
SIMILAR SPECIES
Other black species of Helvella (H. atra, H. pezizoides, and H. vespertina (as H. lacunosa)) have an irregular lobed head or cap, (Abbott).Habitat
single or typically gregarious to numerous and scattered, often on bare soil, typically with willows in deciduous or mixed woods or tundra, typically June to August, but from May to September, (Abbott)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Gelatinodiscus flavidus Kanouse & A.H. Sm.
Simblum periphragmoides Klotzsch
Simblum texense (G.F. Atk.) Long