Hymenoscyphus scutula
The fruit bodies are white to creamy white shallow cups with white margins and exteriors, and whitish or yellowish stalks reaching up to 4 mm in diameter.
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They grow on damp, dead stems of Bramble and stems of herbaceous plants, including Hemp Agrimony, Common Nettle, Rosebay Willowherb and Gipsywort. They grow individually, spaced along their host, or occasionally in pairs. (ref. P Thompson, Ascomycetes in Colour, 2013)
They fruit mainly in the autumn.
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Holwell
27 October 2021
On dead Bramble stem
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Holwell
27 October 2021
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Holwell
27 October 2021
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Species profile
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Helotiales
- Family:
- Helotiaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 3
- First record:
- 28/09/2013 (Thompson, Peter)
- Last record:
- 27/10/2021 (Gray, Stephen)
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