Peziza ostracoderma Korf
no common name
Pezizaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
no common name
Pezizaceae
Species account author: Ian Gibson.
Extracted from Matchmaker: Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest.
Introduction to the Macrofungi
Photograph
Species Information
Summary:
Features include small shallow cup with dark brown to black upper surface, thick flesh that yields no juice, absent stem, growth on burnt ground or in mushroom beds where soil has been sterilized, and microscopic characters including spores with a network of ridges, and flesh composed throughout of large rounded cells. The anamorph, Chromelosporium fulvum (Link), Hennebert and Korf, is velvety to floccose, white or yellow, turning to cinnamon when it is actively growing and producing conidia.
Microscopic:
spores 13-14 x 7.5-8 microns, elliptic, with a more or less continuous network of prominent ridges; asci 260 x 11 microns; paraphyses cylindric, 3 microns wide; flesh composed throughout of large rounded cells, (Dennis), spores 12-15 x 7-10 microns, elliptic, irregularly reticulate, with 2 droplets, (Hansen)
Notes:
P. ostracoderma is found at least in WA, OR, (Larsen), Denmark, Norway, Sweden, (Hansen), and the United Kingdom (Dennis). A collection from BC is deposited at Pacific Forestry Centre, determined by J. Dennis.
Habitat and Range
Habitat
on burnt ground or in mushroom-beds, fall, (Hansen), associated with burning or with sterilized soil casing a mushroom bed, (Dennis)
Status Information
Synonyms
Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Plicaria fulva R. Schneider
Vibrissea foliorum Thaxt.