Brown Cup - Rutstroemia firma
This species is 0.5 to 1.5 cm across, cup shaped, expanding to a flattened and wavy shape, attached by a short stalk 2 to 3 mm long, inner surface ochraceous brown, outer similarly coloured and becoming wrinkled.
On the dead and blackened wood of fallen branches, often on fallen oak branches.
Autumn to early winter.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog NR
13 October 2012
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog NR
13 October 2012
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog NR
13 October 2012
David Nicholls
Narborough Bog NR
13 October 2012
Melinda Bell
Conkers Waterside
13 December 2018
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Species profile
- Common names
- Brown Cup
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Helotiales
- Family:
- Rutstroemiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 13/10/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 28/10/2023 (Nicholls, David)
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Melinda Bell
Conkers Waterside
13 December 2018
Melinda Bell
Conkers Waterside
13 December 2018
David Nicholls
Bradgate Park
18 October 2018
