Bisporella lemon (Bisporella citrina)

Systematics:
  • Department: Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)
  • Subdivision: Pezizomycotina (Pezizomycotins)
  • Class: Leotiomycetes (Leociomycetes)
  • Subclass: Leotiomycetidae (Leocyomycetes)
  • Order: Helotiales (Helotiae)
  • Family: Helotiaceae (Gelociaceae)
  • Genus: Bisporella (Bisporella)
  • Type: Bisporella citrina (Bisporella lemon)
  • Calicella lemon yellow.

Bisporella lemon (Bisporella citrina) photo and description

Author of the photo: Yuri Semenov

Description:

Fruiting body about 0,2 cm high and 0,1-0,5 (0,7) cm in diameter, at first teardrop-shaped, convex, later cup-shaped, often almost disc-shaped, sessile flat, later slightly convex, with a thin margin, matte, downward elongated into a narrowed “leg”, sometimes degenerate, low. The color of the surface is lemon yellow or light yellow, the underside is whitish.

The pulp is gelatinous-elastic, odorless.

Spread:

It grows in summer and autumn, more often from the second half of September to the end of October, in deciduous and mixed forests, on decaying hardwood (birch, linden, oak), on trunks, often at the end of a log – on the horizontal surface of log cabins and stumps, on branches , a large crowded group, often.

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