Plectania milleri Paden & Tylutki
Mycologia 61(3): 683. 1969.

Common Name: none

• Description

  For description, see Carbone et al.

• Habitat

  Solitary to scattered to gregarious on the ground in duff, moss, or woody debris; winter to spring, fairly common.

• Edibility

  Unknown.

• Comments

  Plectania milleri can be distinguished by its stellate margin of its dark black cup, felty-tomentose underside, and by its long elliptical spores. Plectania melastoma has distinctive orange granules on the cap underside.

• References

  Carbone, M., Agnello, C. & Harnisch, J. (2011). Contribution to the knowledge of Plectania milleri (Ascomycota, Pezizales), a Northwestern American species . Ascomycete.org 3(3): 47-54. (PDF)
  Castellano, M.A., Smith, J.E., O'Dell, T., Cázares, E. & Nugent, S. (1999). Handbook to Strategy 1 Fungal Species in the Northwest Forest Plan. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station: Portland, OR. 195 p. (PDF)
  Paden, J.W. & Tylutki, E.E. (1969). Idaho Discomycetes. II. Mycologia 61(4): 683-693. (Protologue)
  Siegel, N. & Schwarz, C. (2016). Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast. Ten Speed Press: Berkeley, CA. 601 p.

• Other Descriptions and Photos
  Main Photo
  • Noah Siegel: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • Noah Siegel: Plectania milleri (CP) — asci and spores
  • Christian Schwarz: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • Ryan Snow: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • Alan Rockefeller: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • Alan Rockefeller: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • Handbook to Strategy 1 Fungal Species in the NW Forest Plan: Plectania milleri (D & CP)
  • Mushroom Observer: Plectania milleri (CP)
  • iNaturalist: Plectania milleri (CP)
  
  

  (D=Description; I=Illustration; P=Photo; CP=Color Photo)