Summary:
Features include a small cup that is yellow orange at first, becoming fawn or light ocher, the exterior similarly colored but covered with stiff light reddish brown hairs, absent stem, growth on bare or mossy burned ground, and microscopic characters.
Tricharina gilva is found at least in OR and ID, (Larsen). A collection from BC determined by N. Weber is deposited at the Pacific Forestry Centre. Desjardin(6) illustrated it for CA.
Upper surface:
up to 0.5cm wide, saucer-shaped with flat disc; pale fawn, (Dennis), 0.2-0.5cm, cup-shaped when young, with outwardly bending margin when old; yellow-orange when young, paling to light ocher when old; margin with short brown hairs, (Breitenbach)
Underside:
colored as inner surface, covered with stiff, light reddish-brown hairs, (Dennis), weakly furfuraceous (Breitenbach)
Stem:
none (Dennis, Breitenbach)
Microscopic:
spores 14-19 x 9-10 microns, elliptic, smooth; asci up to 250 x 15 microns; paraphyses slender, slightly club-shaped, about 4 microns wide; hairs up to 200 x 10 microns, smooth, thin-walled, sparingly septate, tapered to a rounded point, (Dennis), spores 14-16 x 8-10 microns, elliptic, smooth, colorless, without droplets; asci 8-spored, 170-180 x 14-16 microns, inamyloid; paraphyses slender with tips slightly thickened to 4 microns wide; hairs 150-190 x 3-5 microns, base to 10 microns thick, multiseptate, not very thick-walled, tips slightly rounded off, (Breitenbach)
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