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Cheilymenia coprinaria group
About 1mm wide these thiny cups are a specialist fungi on herbivore dung. Half cup shaped with minute, spiky hairs around the rim.
In a local state park forest with mostly short eucalyptus.
phylum: Ascomycota
subphylum: Pezizomycotina
class: Pezizomycetes
order: Pezizales
family: Pyronemataceae
Spotted on May 26, 2014
Submitted on May 27, 2014
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