🇺🇸 scarlet elfcup - 🇩🇪 Scharlachroter Kelchbecherling - 🇪🇪 Harilik karikseen - 🇷🇺 Саркосцифа австрийская 3/13/18—3/8/25
🆔 Sarcoscypha austriaca (Beck ex Sacc.) Boud.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Smooth, forming the inner surface of the cup (apothecium), bright scarlet to deep red in color
ℹ️ Cap: Lacks a distinct cap, the fruiting body is cup-shaped, thin and smooth, often slightly translucent when moist, vivid scarlet color and sometimes a slightly wrinkled margin
❌ Hymenium forms the entire inner surface of the cup
❌ Fruiting body is sessile and attached directly to the substrate by a minimal basal area
❌ Ascospores are produced internally within the cup
🍂🪵 Saprobic, growing on decaying wood, bark, or leaf litter in damp, shaded forest environment, in spring to early summer
⚠️ Inedible, due to its small size and insubstantial flesh
📏 Fruit body small, cup-shaped, typically 1–6 cm in diameter
👃 Faint or slightly fruity
👅 Indistinct
🔬 Spores 25-37 x 9.5-15 µ, ellipsoid to nearly football-shaped, with rounded or, not infrequently, flattened ends, asci are 8-spored
🔤 Small, brilliantly colored cup fungus with a vivid scarlet disc
🇺🇸 scarlet elfcup - 🇩🇪 Scharlachroter Kelchbecherling - 🇪🇪 Harilik karikseen - 🇷🇺 Саркосцифа австрийская