🇬🇧 common glasscup - 🇩🇪 Gelbe Madenspor-Knopfbecherchen - 🇷🇺 Орбилия желтоглазковая

🇬🇧 common glasscup - 🇩🇪 Gelbe Madenspor-Knopfbecherchen - 🇷🇺 Орбилия желтоглазковая 9/27/25

🆔 Orbilia xanthostigma (Fr.) Fr.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Smooth under the disc, producing asci in thin hymenial layer, apothecial disc shows a glassy, translucent surface
ℹ️ Apothecium: Small, disc/cup-shaped apothecia, yellow to ochre, semi-transparent, shining, waxy texture
❌ Stipe: Absent or extremely reduced, discs typically borne directly on wood or substrate
🍂🪵🍄 Saprobic on decaying hardwood (often with e.g. Mollisia and Nemania spp.), in moist shaded woodland, spring through autumn
❌ Inedible (microscopic, insubstantial)
📏 Apothecium size tiny
📐 Disc ~3mm diameter
🧪 No conspicuous color reactions
🔬 Ascospores: Ellipsoid to kidney-shaped, hyaline, size ~ 1–2 × 3–4 µm; Asci: Typical operculate asci within the hymenium (standard for Orbiliaceae); Paraphyses: Present (intermixed among asci)
🔤 Tiny, bright yellow to ochre, translucent glasscup fungus growing on decaying wood