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🆔 Discina ancilis (Pers.) Sacc.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Smooth to slightly wrinkled fertile surface lining the upper side of the apothecium; reddish-chestnut-dark-brown
ℹ️ Apothecium: Irregularly cup-, ear- or saddle-shaped, often lobed and folded; margin wavy or contorted; outer surface paler, finely tomentose to smooth
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Apothecial, fertile surface exposed on the upper inner folds
ℹ️ Stipe: Short, thick, ribbed or folded, often partially buried, whitish to pale brown
⚪ Spore print white to pale cream
🌲🪵 Saprobic on decaying conifer wood, buried timber, wood debris, after snowy winter, spring to early summer
😕 Uncertain to mildly toxic; sometimes consumed after thorough cooking, gyromitrin-related toxins
📏 Fruit body medium to large
📐 Apothecium ∅ ~3–10 cm
🔪 Fragile, fleshy to brittle, unchanging when cut
👃 Mild to faintly earthy
👅 Indistinct
🔬 Spores ellipsoid to fusiform, smooth, hyaline, ~30–38 × 12–15 µm with oil droplets and apiculi; asci cylindrical, 8-spored; paraphyses slender, septate, slightly enlarged apically
🔤 Spring-fruiting brown cup fungus with irregular folded saddle-like apothecia
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