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Cheilymenia coprinaria

Cheilymenia coprinaria group

Photo by Mark Ridgway
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Field Notes

Description:

About 1mm wide these thiny cups are a specialist fungi on herbivore dung. Half cup shaped with minute, spiky hairs around the rim.

Habitat:

In a local state park forest with mostly short eucalyptus.

Notes:

phylum: Ascomycota <br>
subphylum: Pezizomycotina <br>
class: Pezizomycetes <br>
order: Pezizales <br>
family: Pyronemataceae <br>

Reference Links:

Cheilymenia coprinaria - Information on Cheilymenia coprinaria, Röd borstskål – Wikipedia, Cheilymenia | Atlas of Living Australia

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