Chloroscypha alutipes
Persoonia 3(1): 34. 1964.
Common Name: none
Synonym: Peziza alutipes W. Phillips; Kriegeria alutipes (W. Phillips) Seaver
For description see Van Vooren & Dennis
Gregarious on incense cedar leaves; common, fruiting from spring through early fall in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges.
Unknown.
Chloroscypha alutipes can be recognized by tiny, orange, stipitate cups that turn black when dried. Apparently it grows exclusively on the scale-like leaves of incense cedar. Because of the substrate and color change from orange to black, it is not likely to be confused with other tiny orange cup fungi. Pithya cupressina is similar in size, coloration, and substrate, but its fruitbodies do not turn black when dried and the spores are globose.
Dennis, R.W.G. (1963). Remarks on the genus Hymenoscphus S. F. Gray, with observations on sundry species by Saccardo and others to the genera Helotium, Pezizella or Phialea. Persoonia 3(1): 29-80. (PDF)
Desjardin, D.E., Wood, M.G. & Stevens, F.A. (2015). California Mushrooms: The Comprehensive Identification Guide. Timber Press: Portland, OR. 560 p.
Phillips, W. (1878). Fungi of California. Grevillea. 7(41):20-23. (Protologue)
Seaver, F.J. (1951). The North American Cup-Fungi (Inoperculates). Privately Published: New York, NY. 428 p.
Van Vooren, N. (2012). Discomycètes rares ou remarquables récoltés en 2011. 2e partie : Helotiales. Ascomycete.org 4(5): 109-118. (PDF)
— scale = 1mm
