Index Fungorum Humaria hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Fuckel
MycoBank Humaria hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Fuckel
Hemisphaericus, a, um, hemispherical, semi-spherical. From ήμι- semi- + sphaericus, a, um, spherical. Also σφαίρα, ball, sphere.
Peziza hemisphaerica F.H. Wigg., Prim. fl. holsat. (Kiliae): 105 (1780) - Basionym
Lachnea hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Gillet, Champignons de France, Discom. (3): 73 (1880)
Sepultaria hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Lambotte, Mém. Soc. roy. Sci. Liège, Série 2 14: 302 [prepr.] (1887)
Scutellinia hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Kuntze, Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 869 (1891)
Mycolachnea hemisphaerica (F.H. Wigg.) Maire, Publ. Inst. Bot. Barcelona 3 (no. 4): 24 (1937)
Peziza replicata Tode, Schr. Ges. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 4: 269 (1783)
Lachnea hemisphaerica var. replicata (Tode) Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 8: 167 (1889)
Peziza hispida Sowerby, Col. fig. Engl. Fung. Mushr. (London) 2: tab. 147 (1798)
Apothecia are 10–30 mm in diameter and 10–20 mm in height, sessile, initially spherical, and open to cup- or saucer-shaped when mature. The upper, spore-bearing surface is smooth, white, pale yellow, or grayish. The lower, sterile surface is brownish-yellow or brown, densely covered with brown hairs 1–1.5 mm long.
Thin, fragile, greyish, without a distinct taste.
Weak, mushroomy.
Spore powder: white. Spores: ellipsoidal, finely warty, 18-25 x 12-14 µm, hyaline, with two, rarely one drop of oil.
It grows in groups on the soil, among mosses, or on rotting wood. It forms mycorrhiza with deciduous trees.
Trichophaea hemisphaerioides, a very similar species, is distinguished by its much smaller spores.
Humaria hemispherica is often affected by the parasitic fungus Hypomyces stephanomatis, which deforms the fruiting bodies and colors them lead-blue.
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