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Fairy Cups
1 species
Nees ex Gray. A genus of about 45 tiny, often brightly coloured stalked or sessile cup fungi. Molecular work in 2013 showed Bisporella is a synonym, bringing the common yellow fairy cups (C. citrina) into the genus.
Fruiting body: minute discs or shallow cups, usually a few millimetres wide, yellow, white or pale; on wood, herbaceous stems or other debris. Spore print: white. Spores: hyaline, ellipsoid, often septate at maturity.
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