Peziza spp. fruit body spore sacs teased out and viewed under a microscope
Peziza is a large genus of saprophytic cup fungi that grow on the ground, rotting wood, or dung. Most members of this genus are of unknown edibility and are difficult to identify as separate species without use of microscopy. The polyphyletic genus has been estimated to contain over 100 species.[1]
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Peziza domiciliana, commonly known as the domicile cup fungus, is a species of fungus in the genus Peziza, family Pezizaceae. Described by English mycologist...
Peziza varia, commonly known as the spreading brown cup fungus, Palomino cup or recurved cup, is a species of fungus in the genus Peziza, family Pezizaceae...
Peziza vesiculosa, commonly known as the common dung cup, is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. The pale, cup-shaped ascocarps...
Peziza phyllogena, commonly known as the common brown cup or the pig-ear cup, is a species of fungus in the family Pezizaceae. A saprobic species, the...
Peziza succosa is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. It grows in woods in Europe, Iceland, Israel, China, Argentina, and...
Peziza fimeti is a species of ascomycete fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. Found in Europe and North America, the fungus grows on cow dung. It...
Peziza arvernensis, commonly known as the boring brown cup fungus or fairy tub, is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. This...
Peziza micropus is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. This European fungus is found on rotting wood, especially beech and...
Peziza moseri is a species of cup fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. It was officially described as new to science in 1974 from collections made...
Peziza cerea, commonly known as the Cellar Cup is a species of ascomycete fungus in the genus Peziza, family Pezizaceae. In common with other ascomycetes...
Peziza violacea, commonly known as the violet fairy cup or the violet cup fungus, is a species of fungus in the genus Peziza of the family Pezizaceae....
Peziza granulosa is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. This is a European species, appearing as small pale-coloured cups...
Peziza petersii is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. This is a European species with rather small and irregular brown...
Peziza ampliata is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pezizaceae. It appears as brown cups with a wrinkled interior, up to 3 cm across...
originally described from Europe in 1789 by German naturalist August Batsch as Peziza citrina. Elias Fries sanctioned this name in the second volume of his Systema...
Peziza oliviae is a species of fungus in the family Peziza. It is an olive-brown stalked cup fungus discovered growing underwater in Oregon streams. Peziza...
The fungus was originally described in 1822 by Elias Magnus Fries, as Peziza speciosa. Richard William George Dennis transferred it to the genus Cookeina...
Peziza halophila (now Daleomyces halophilus) is an ascomycete fungus in the family Pezizaceae, described as new to science in 2017. It was originally described...
Botrytis cinerea is a necrotrophic fungus that affects many plant species, although its most notable hosts may be wine grapes. In viticulture, it is commonly...
Scopoli in 1772. Other early names include Peziza coccinea (Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin, 1774) and Peziza dichroa (Theodor Holmskjold, 1799). Although...
its common name. Christiaan Hendrik Persoon described the orange peel as Peziza aurantia in 1800. The specific epithet is the Latin word aurantia "orange"...
described as Auricularia polytricha. The species was first described in 1788 as Peziza nigrescens by the Swedish botanist Olof Swartz, based on a collection he...
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