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Mata, M., D. Penjor and S. Pradham. 2010. Fungi of Bhutan. National Mushroom Centre, Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Thimphu, Bhutan. Local name: No local name known Edibility: Poisonous unless well cooked Habitat: Terrestrialon manure and gregarious to cespitose. Description: Cup: 3-8 cm across, cup-shaped often with a strongly enrolled margin, often in clusters, sessile. Inner surface: Pale yellowish-buff and often wrinkled. Outer surface: Light buff and very scurfy. Flesh: Brittle and light buff. Spore Print: Creamy white. Comments: Most obvious is its preference for fruiting in clusters on horse dung or decayed straw. While many other cup fungi also occur on dung, these are smaller, differently coloured, or have hairs on the cup margin. Peziza vesiculosa is additionally distinguished by a wrinkled yellowish-brown hymenial inner surface and a pale tan outer surface. |
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