25/Jul/2026 🎂, 6:48 PM
Toosikannu, Jõeküla, Järva, Eesti
Mixed primeval forest, with Spruces and Birches, on gravel forest path
58°48'10.4"N 25°03'05.3"E
🌡️ 19°C 🌧️ Rain and dark clouds 💨 Wind 200° SSW->NNE, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postLegaliana badia
bay cup
- Scientific identification
- Legaliana badia (Pers.) Van Vooren
- Family
- Pezizaceae
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Genus
- Legaliana
Names across languages
- English: bay cup
- German: Kastanienbrauner-Becherling
- Finnish: Maksamaljakas
- Estonian: Pruun liudik
- Russian: Легалиана каштаново-коричневая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-07-25.
Hymenium
Smooth to slightly glossy, olive-brown, chestnut-brown, becoming darker as it dries
Apothecium
Deeply cup- or saucer-shaped when young, later spreading, irregularly lobed, undulating or split; outer surface reddish-brown to olivaceous-brown and finely furfuraceous, especially near the margin
Hymenium Attachment
N/A
Stipe
Absent or represented by a very short, inconspicuous basal attachment
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic on bare, compact, sandy or clay-rich soil in coniferous, deciduous and mixed woodland; often along paths, banks, ditches and disturbed ground; summer to late autumn
Edibility
Inedible and without culinary value
Fruit body
Fruit body small to medium; approximately 1.5–3.7 cm tall
Dimensions
Apothecium ∅ ~2–7(–10) cm
Flesh
Flesh thin, brittle, pale reddish-brown
Chemical reactions
No distinctive macroscopic reaction
Odour
Indistinct
Taste
Indistinct
Microscopy
Ascospores ellipsoid, hyaline to faintly yellow-brown, usually biguttulate, ~17–20 × 8–11 µm, asci cylindrical, operculate, amyloid, 8-spored, approximately 300–350 × 12–15 µm; paraphyses cylindrical, septate and slightly enlarged at the apex
Overview
Dark chestnut-brown woodland cup fungus with brittle reddish-brown flesh
2020). Ascomycete.org 12(4): 188.
Field encounters
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