Coprobia granular (Cheilymenia granulata)
Systematics:
- Department: Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)
- Subdivision: Pezizomycotina (Pesizomycotins)
- Class: Pezizomycetes (Pecicomycetes)
- Subclass: Pezizomycetidae
- Order: Pezizales
- Family: Pyronemataceae (Pyronema)
- Genus: Cheilymenia (Heilimenia)
- Species: Cheilymenia granulata (Coprobia granular)
Synonyms:
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Coprobia granulata;
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Heilimenia is grainy.
Description: The fruit body is small, 0.2-0.3 cm in diameter, small, sessile, at first closed, spherical, then saucer-shaped, later almost flat, finely scaly outside, with whitish scales, matte inside, yellowish, whitish-yellow, yellow- orange.
The pulp is thin, jelly.
Distribution: Growing up and in autumn, often on cow dung, on 'cakes', in groups.
Evaluation: Edibility not known.
