26/Oct/24, 3:30 PM
Laiaküla raba, Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
Deciduous forest, on hardwood log
59°28'01.0"N 24°53'23.7"E
🔆 Full overcast, forest shade
Original Instagram postCalycina citrina
yellow fairy cups
- Scientific identification
- Calycina citrina (Hedw.) Gray
- Family
- Helotiaceae
- Class
- Leotiomycetes
- Genus
- Calycina
Names across languages
- English: yellow fairy cups
- German: Zitronengelbes Reisigbecherchen
- Finnish: Keltanastakka
- Estonian: Kollane bisporell
- Russian: Калицелла лимонная
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2024-10-26.
Hymenium
Smooth, forms the inner surface of the apothecium, bright yellow to lemon-yellow
Cap
Cup- or disc-shaped, often shallow, lemon-yellow, smooth, and slightly translucent when fresh
Hymenium Attachment
N/A (Hymenium forms the internal surface of the cup)
Stipe
With or without a tiny, tapering pseudostem;
Spore print
Spore print white (microscopic spore mass)
Ecology
Saprobic, grows on decaying wood, twigs, in moist, shaded environments, found in large groups, during autumn
Edibility
Inedible due to its tiny size and insubstantial flesh
Fruit body
Fruit body very small, with or without a tiny, tapering pseudostem
Dimensions
Cap 1–4 mm in diameter
Chemical reactions
Dried herbarium specimens orange
Odour
Odour indistinct
Microscopy
Spores elongated-ellipsoid, smooth, sometimes becoming 1–2-septate, often biguttulate, hyaline in KOH, 12–16 x 3.5–5 µm, asci 120–175 x 5–8 µm, 8-spored
Overview
Small, vibrant yellow cup fungus that forms dense clusters on decaying wood
1821). Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 670.
Field encounters
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