Summary:
Features include 1) a cup-shaped fruitbody with a gray-brown upper surface, often with an olive tint, 2) finely scurfy exterior lighter in color and sometimes yellowish, 3) whitish flesh that exudes a juice quickly turning yellow, 4) absent stem, 5) growth on soil, and 6) microscopic characters including spores that are coarsely warty to short-ribbed.

Microscopic:
spores 17-21 x 9.5-11.5 microns, elliptic, coarsely warty to short-ribbed, colorless, with two droplets; asci 8-spored, 330 x 15 microns, positive reaction to iodine; paraphyses cylindric, septate, tips with slightly clavate widenings to 9 microns, sometimes forked, (Breitenbach), spores 17-22 x 9-12 microns, with coarse warts and short ridges, with 2 large oil droplets; asci about 350 x 18 microns; paraphyses straight, colorless, slightly clavate, (Dennis), spores 16-20 x 8-12 microns, elliptic, finally becoming sculptured with rather conspicuous warts 1-2 microns wide, colorless or very faintly yellowish (olivaceous in mass), usually containing 2 distinct oil droplets, obliquely uniseriate; asci 8-spored, reaching a length of 200-225 microns and a width of 12-15 microns, cylindric or subcylindric; paraphyses slender, septate, widened in upper part, "filled with yellowish coloring matter", (Seaver)

Notes:
Peziza succosa is found at least in BC, WA, OR, and CA, (Larsen), northeastern North America, west to WI, (Phillips), NY to IA and WI (Seaver), Switzerland (Breitenbach), and the United Kingdom (Dennis).

EDIBILITY

no (Phillips)

Synonyms and Alternate Names:
Aleuria succosa Gillet
Alpova alexsmithii Trappe Beih. Nova
Galactinia succosa Sacc.
Otidea succosa Thum.
Plicaria succosa Rehm