Scutellinia olivascens

Scutellinia olivascens is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pyronemataceae. This European fungus forms clusters of orange discs up to 1.5 cm in diameter on soil or rotting wood in summer and autumn. It is very similar to the common species Scutellinia umbrorum and can only be reliably identified by microscopic features.[3]

Scutellinia olivascens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Pezizomycetes
Order:
Pezizales
Family:
Pyronemataceae
Genus:
Scutellinia
Species:
S. olivascens
Binomial name
Scutellinia olivascens
Synonyms[1]

Ciliaria ampullacea (Limm.) Boud.
Humaria olivascens (Cooke) Quél.
Lachnea ampullacea (Limm.) Gillet
Lachnea olivascens (Cooke) Sacc.
Peziza ampullacea Limm., in Cooke
Peziza macrochaeta Rabenh. & Gonn.
Peziza olivascens Cooke
Scutellinia ampullacea (Limm.) Kuntze
Scutellinia ampullacea var. parvula Le Gal
Tricharia olivascens (Cooke) Boud.

The species was described in 1876 by Mordecai Cooke as Peziza olivascens,[4] but Otto Kuntze revised the genus to Scutellinia in 1891.[1][2]

References
  1. Scutellinia olivascens at Species Fungorum
  2. Kuntze, O. (1891) Revis. gen. pl. (Leipzig) 2: 869
  3. Jordan, Michael (2004). The Encyclopedia of Fungi of Britain and Europe. Frances Lincoln Publishers. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-7112-2379-0.
  4. Cooke, M.C. (1876) Mycogr., Vol. 1. Discom. (London)(no. 2): 78, fig. 142


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