Tarzetta

Kerbrandiger Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta cupularis )

The Napfbecherlinge ( Tarzetta ) are a genus of Ascomycota rights of the family of fire pillow relatives ( Pyronemataceae ) with 4 species in Central Europe and 13 species worldwide.

Features

The Napfbecherlinge form small to medium sized, cup -shaped, more or less short -stalked fruiting bodies whose sluice is usually sunk in the ground. Their fruiting bodies show gray to blasrosa colors. The Napfbecherlinge have similar to a cellular Öhrlingen excipulum and Trama, which is composed of intertwined hyphae. Their smooth, elliptical spores, which usually have two oil drops, similar to Öhrlingen. However, their apothecia are cup- or goblet- shaped and never cut ear -shaped or one-sided. Their edges are often denticulate typical. Their paraphyses are always straight. The outside of the Excipulums is kleiig since come off its outer cells. The Ascusspitze blues inconsistently in Lugol ( inamyloid ).

Ecology

The Napfbecherlinge live as saprophytes on the ground, but also burns and mosses. It is very likely that at least some Napfbecherlinge mycorrhizae respond to plants.

System

Tarzetta belongs together the closely related genus Geopyxis, and the truffle -like genera Paurocotylis and Stephensia in the clade 2 within the fire pillow relatives. As the sister group together in the same clade are also the representative of the former family and the genus Ascodesmidaceae Pulvinula. In contrast Tarzetta is not so closely related to Otidea how long assumed. Tarzetta is monophyletic.

Species

• Tarzetta brasiliensis
• Tarzetta bronca
• Pot -shaped Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta Catinus )
• Tarzetta cinerascens
• Kerbrandiger Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta cupularis )
• Smallest Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta gaillardiana )
• Tarzetta jafneospora
• Tarzetta microspora
• Tarzetta pusilla
• Tarzetta rapuloides
• Tarzetta scotica
• Paraphysis - Napfbecherling ( Tarzetta spurcata )
• Tarzetta velata