Helvella villosa Dissing and Nannf. Rifai (1968)

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Helvella villosa. Club fungus with grey brown disc to 25 mm diam., on long stem (to 50 mm diam.); outer surface of disc and stem hairy. On ground. RARE. Compare Plectania campylospora.

• Fruiting body

  Head up to 25 mm diameter, shallow cup to saucer- or sometimes saddle-shaped, the outer surface distinctly hairy, greyish brown.

• Fertile surface

  Smooth, grey brown, darker or the same colour as the outer surface.

• Stipe/stalk

  Up to 50mm long, 2-3.5 diameter, slender, cylindrical or terete, distinctly hairy on upper half, colour similar to cup outer surface.

• Smell

  Not distinctive

• Spores

  Spore print unknown, probably white.

• Habitat

  On soil, almost always near streams. Distribution: Europe, Siberia, China, West Pakistan, North America, Australia.

• References

  Fungi of Australia 1A: fig.13.

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