Local name: No local name known

Edibility: Unknown

Habitat: Growing on well-decayed wood or on the ground and solitary or gregarious.

Description: Fruit bodies: Goblet shaped when young, becoming more broadly cup-shaped and reaching widths of 2-3 cm when mature. Upper surface: White or pale bluish, fairly smooth. Under surface:  Densely hairy with prominent hairs that extend above the margin of the cup, brown, without a stem. Flesh: Brownish or pale, brittle. Spore Print: Creamy white.

Comments: The combination of pallid fertile surface and brown hairy exterior make this an easy cup fungus to recognize. Jafnea semitosta is a large species with a creamy-white to tan or brown interior, a brown exterior clothed with scattered soft brown hairs, plus a short ribbed stalk. Other hairy species, Trichophaea boudieri and T. bullata have a pale grey to whitish interior and brown hairy exterior, but are much smaller and grow on wet soil under conifers.