A tiny, stalked, goblet-shaped orange-brown cup fungus that appears in large numbers on burned ground, especially in conifer forests in the first year after a fire. Its pale, finely toothed rim and short white stalk help identify it. Morel hunters in western North America often find it alongside burn morels.
Inedible; the fruitbodies are too small and insubstantial to be of food value.
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Habitat
On burned soil and charred debris, often in great numbers, in burned conifer forests, burned brush and campfire sites; fruits from the year after a fire, spring through fall. Mainly saprotrophic but can form biotrophic associations with Norway spruce roots.
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Temperate Northern Hemisphere: widespread in Europe, recorded in Asia including Turkey, and widespread in northern and montane North America from Alaska south (not the Gulf Coast).
Characteristics
Cup: 5-20 mm across, 4-20 mm high, goblet-shaped; inner surface brick-red to brownish orange, outer surface duller yellowish to orange-brown; margin whitish to cream, finely and irregularly toothed. Stalk: short, 2-15 mm, whitish. Spores: elliptical to subfusiform, smooth, about 13-22 x 7-11 um depending on source (MushroomExpert; Wikipedia; California Fungi).
