27/Sep/2026, 2:28 PM
Saku mõisa park, Saku, Harju, Eesti
Urban park, parking slot pavement space, in mossy sandy (small rocks) soil
59°17'55.0"N 24°39'53.0"E
🌡️ 15°C 🌤️ Passing clouds 💨 Wind 280° W->E, 19 km/h
Original Instagram postMelastiza chateri
Orange Cup
- Scientific identification
- Melastiza chateri (W.G. Sm.) Boud.
- Family
- Pyronemataceae
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Genus
- Melastiza
Names across languages
- English: Orange Cup
- German: Mennigfarbiger Borstling
- Finnish: Tiemaljakas
- Estonian: Nupp-punaliudik
- Russian: Меластица волосковая
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-09-27.
Hymenium
Smooth to slightly uneven, vivid orange to orange-red or vermilion
Apothecium
Sessile, initially cup-shaped, later shallowly saucer- to disc-shaped; exterior paler orange to reddish-brown, finely pubescent; margin dotted with short inconspicuous brown hairs
Stipe
Absent
Spore print
Spore print white
Ecology
Saprobic on damp bare, mossy or sandy soil; forests, woodland tracks, roadsides and disturbed ground; scattered to gregarious; summer to autumn
Edibility
Tiny and no culinary value
Fruit body
Fruit body very small; apothecia ~1–2 mm tall
Dimensions
Apothecium ∅ ~2–15 mm
Flesh
Orange-red, thin, waxy and brittle, unchanging when cut
Description
Paraphyses filiform with enlarged orange-pigmented apices; marginal hairs brown, blunt, septate, up to ~200 µm long
Microscopy
Ascospores ellipsoid, hyaline, biguttulate, ~16–20 × 9–11 µm excluding ornamentation; asci cylindrical, 8-spored, ~215–300 × 11–15 µm, inamyloid;
Overview
Tiny vivid orange-red soil cup with short brown marginal hairs
1907). Hist. Class. Discom. Eur. (Paris): 64.
Field encounters
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