Observation 65750: Arachnopeziza aurelia (Pers.) Fuckel
When: 2011-04-18
Collection location: DePew Park, Peekskill, New York, USA [Click for map]
Specimen available
Notes:
There is no stem, the cushion rests upon a mycelial mat. The cups, measuring 1 mm when young open as they mature, becoming lobed and torn, revealing the inside surface. The outside is somewhat fibrous with orange floccules. Photo by Dianna Smith
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I’d Call It That | 3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Promising | 2.0 | 4.17 | 1 | (pabloski) | |||||
Could Be | 1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Doubtful | -1.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Not Likely | -2.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
As If! | -3.0 | 0.00 | 0 | ||||||
Overall Score sum(score * weight) / (total weight + 1) |
1.61 | 53.77% |
Under the microscope the derma and floccules are composed of parallel hyphae with interweaving in lower layers. Trouble is I don’t see any hymenial surface basidial or otherwise; no basidia, asci or perithecia. Everything but the dermis seems gelatinized.
Substrate is an acorn cap.