Crucibulum laeve (Huds.) Kambly, Gast. Iowa: 167 (1936) Peziza crucibuliformis Schaeff., Fung. bavar. palat. nasc. (Ratisbonae) 2: 125 (1763) Peziza laevis Huds., Fl. Angl. Edn 2 2: 634 (1778) Cyathus crucibuliformis (Schaeff.) Hoffm., Veg. Crypt. 2: 29 (1790) Nidularia laevis (Huds.) Huds., Fl. Cantab. Edn 2: 529 (1793) Cyathus scutellaris Roth, Catal. bot. 1: 217 (1797) Cyathus crucibulum Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 1: 238 (1801) Nidularia crucibulum Fr., Syst. mycol. (Lundae) 2(2): 299 (1823) Crucibulum vulgare Tul. & C. Tul., Annls Sci. Nat. Bot., sér. 3 1: 90 (1844)
Habitat: On decayed woody debris, fallen twigs, compost, decayed herbaceous stems and grass culms, in woodland, dunes, parkland and gardens, often abundant on woodchip mulch on flowerbeds.
Notes: Common in southern England, occasional elsewhere.
Distribution: E: c, S: !, W: o, NI: o, ROI: o
Vouchers: England: K(M) 30894; Scotland: K(M) 81174 (very old record); Wales: K(M) 81173
Descriptions, Lists & Icons: D+I:, in Phillips, R., Mushrooms and other fungi of Great Britain & Europe: 288 pp. (1981), p. 254-255 D+I:, in Breitenbach, J., Kränzlin, F., Fungi of Switzerland Non gilled fungi, Heterobasidiomycetes, Aphyllophorales, Gasteromycetes 2: 412 pp. (1986), p. 378, pl. 493 D:, in Hansen, I. & Knudsen, H., Nordic Macromycetes Heterobasidioid, Aphyllophoroid and Gasteromycetoid Basidiomycetes, (Ed.: Lise Hansen & Henning Knudsen) 3: 444 pp. (1997), p. 194 D+I:, in Pegler, D.N., Læssøe, T., & Spooner, B.M, British Puffballs, Earthstars and Stinkhorns: an account of the Gasteroid Fungi: 1-255 (1995), p. 64-65, pl. Figs 38/39
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