Tarzetta cupularis

Kerbrandiger Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta cupularis )

The Kerbrandige Napfbecherling or cup-shaped calyx cup Ling ( Tarzetta cupularis ) is a mushroom of the family of Pyronemataceae.

Features

Macroscopic characteristics

The Kerbrandige Napfbecherling forms deep cup-shaped fruiting bodies that hold a short rotund, insertion end in the ground stalks. The cups are 1 to 2 cm wide and pale in all parts to gray beige. The outside is clearly kleiig. The consistency of the fruit body is fragile and at the same time quite elastic. Smell and taste are insignificant, but not unpleasant. The pot -shaped Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta Catinus ) is similar, but with up to 5 cm, and more significantly larger dish-shaped habitus.

Microscopic characteristics

The spores are smooth, hyaline, elliptical, and 19 to 21 × 10.5 to 13 microns in size and have 2 distinct oil droplets. The asci are cylindrical and are 280 to 330 × 11 to 14 microns in size. The paraphyses are often forked, but just.

Ecology

The Kerbrandige Napfbecherling saprobiontisch grows on loamy and sandy soils preferably in forests and parks before. Its fruit bodies appear under trees, shrubs and herbs, usually on bare earth. It forms fruiting in the spring and again in autumn. It is not rare in Central Europe and is also found in North America.