Order: Pezizales
Family: Pyronemataceae
Genus: Aleuria
Species: A. aurantia
Identifying Characteristics:
- Bright orange to a brillant yellow cup; irregular, thin, brittle
- Cup: deep at first, with an incurved margin; expanding to a shallow, irregular cup or rarely becoming nearly flat.
- outer surface has whitish hairs (use hand lens to see)
- Stalk: lacking or very poorly developed
Special Adaptations:
- Cup is attached to soil at a base point
- edible, said to have a good flavor
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