English: Green Elf cup; Green wood cup.
Synonym: Chlorosplenium aeruginascens;Peziza aeruginascens
Clades:
Chlorociboriaceae;
Helotiales;
Leotiomycetes; Pezizomycotina;
Ascomycota;
Fungi.
Habitat: on bark-free wood, especially oak.
Content: quinone pigment called xylindein, responsible for the characteristic bluish-green stain.
MycologyFungus; saprobic; fruit bodies small, green, saucer-shaped.
Stipe: less than 3 mm long, with a central or eccentric attachment to the apothecia.
Ascocarps: apothecia, cup-shaped; attached laterally; ± 5 mm in diameter; collapsing laterally and becoming rolled inwards when dry;outer layer of the apothecium, the ectal excipulum, has a delicate tomentose surface composed of hair-like, straight or sometimes coiled, smooth hyphae.
Spores:roughly spindle-shaped, fusiform, smooth; 5 to 8 by 0.7 to 2.8 µm.