Glazed Cup

Glazed Cup Humaria hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Fuckel syn. Peziza hemisphaerica F.H. Wigg. (illustrated life size) Cup 0.5–3cm across, remaining cup-shaped, sessile; inner surface whitish, outer densely covered in stiff, thick-walled, dark brown, septate hairs with acute apices, 500×20¼, or up to 1mm long at margin. Flesh whitish. Spores 20–40×10–12¼, broadly elliptical, coarsely warted, containing 2 oil drops. Asci 350×20¼, not blued by iodine. Habitat on soil or damp, rotten wood; summer to autumn. Occasional. Not edible.