Humaria hemisphaerica is a speciesoffungus in the family Pyronemataceae. In the UK it has the recommended English name of glazed cup;[1] in North America it has been called the hairy fairy cup[2] or the brown-haired fairy cup.[3]Ascocarps (fruit bodies) are cup-shaped and can be recognized by their smooth, white inner surface and hairy, brown outer surface. The species is ectomycorrhizal and occurs in Europe and North America.
This species was originally described in 1780 by German mycologist Friedrich Heinrich WiggersasPeziza hemisphaerica. Fries placed it within the Lachnea series, a name he applied to cup fungi with hairy apothecia.[4] In 1870 Leopold Fuckel transferred P. hemisphaerica to the genus Humaria.[5]
The specific epithet is derived from the Latin word hemisphaericum, meaning half a sphere.
Humaria hemisphaerica has fruiting bodies (apothecia) that typically measure 5 to 30 millimetres (1⁄4to1+1⁄8 inches) in diameter by 1 to 1.5 cm (3⁄8to5⁄8in) deep.[6] The fruiting bodies are initially spherical and expand to become cuplike at the fungus matures. This species typically does not have a stipe; when it does, it is present as a small abrupt base. The inner surface of the fruiting body (the hymenium) is white, while the outer hairy surface is brown and covered with brown hairs that taper to a sharp point. These hairs are 400–500 x 15–20 μm. The ascospores are elliptical, hyaline, 20–22 x 10–11 μm, and have 2–3 oil droplets.[7]
H. hemisphaerica grows year-round on North America's west coast[8] and is common in the Pacific Northwest;[9] further east, it fruits from July to October.[8] Specimens usually grow alone,[8] but also appear scattered or grouped on the ground, and sometimes on decaying wood.[2]
^ abRoody WC. (2003). Mushrooms of West Virginia and the Central Appalachians. Lexington, Ky: University Press of Kentucky. p. 465. ISBN0-8131-9039-8.
^Fries EM. (1823). Systema mycologicum. Vol 2. Ex Officina Berlingiana, Lundae, Sweden. 620 pp.
^Fuckel L. (1870). Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze. Jahrbuch des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde23–24:1–459.
^Rosanne A. Healy; Huffman, Donald R.; Lois H. Tiffany; George Knaphaus (2008). Mushrooms and Other Fungi of the Midcontinental United States (Bur Oak Guide). Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. p. 279. ISBN978-1-58729-627-7.
^Tylutki, Edmund E. (1979). Mushrooms of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest. Moscow: University Press of Idaho. p. 90. ISBN0-89301-062-6.
