Sarcoscypha austriaca    (Beck) Boud. 

common name(s) : Scarlet Elfcup, Scarlet Elfcup2 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Sarcoscyphaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Sarcoscyphineae/Sarcoscyphaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Peziza austriaca, Plectania austriaca)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Sarcoscypha austriaca toxicity of Sarcoscypha austriaca genus Sarcoscypha  

The fruiting body is cup shaped, regularly formed, with a bright red, smooth, shiny internal surface, the external surface being whitish, pink to orange, dull, hairy.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood, on fallen alder branches, in the Alps, on alder.

The fruiting period takes place from January to June.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 3 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  total height approximately 1 cm (between 0.5 and 1.5 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Sarcoscypha austriaca is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Sarcoscypha austriaca in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Sarcoscypha austriaca in the forest of Rambouillet



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