Illustrations: Hvass 323; LH 215; NB 1531; WD 1081.
Plate 65. Stinkhorns
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Birds nest fungi
Crucibulum laeve (de Candolle) Kambly
Fruit-body: diameter 8-12 mm.
Description:
Fruit-body: ochraceous brown or sand-colour, downy and then smooth, truncate, cup-shaped with the cup at first closed by a yellowish membrane which finally splits to expose a group of pale brown or dingy whitish, circular, lens-shaped ‘eggs’ (peridioles), scattered on a shiny pale ochraceous interior.
Spores: medium-sized, in packets within ‘eggs’, ellipsoid, hyaline, smooth and 8-10 × 4-6 µm in size.