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A small olive-brown to blackish cup fungus that fruits on damp burnt ground and ash after fires. It belongs to the fire-following (pyrophilous) fungi. Dark spore-filled asci protrude from the disc as it matures.
Not edible: too small to be food, and no edibility information exists.
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