Ascocoryne sarcoides    (Jacquin:S.F. Gray.) J.W. Groves & D.E. Wilson 

common name(s) : Purple Jellydisc 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Leotiomycetes/Leotiomycetidae/Helotiales/Incertae sedis  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Helotiales  

synonyms: Coryne sarcoides 

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of  Ascocoryne sarcoides
photo gallery of  Ascocoryne sarcoides potential confusions with  Ascocoryne sarcoides toxicity of Ascocoryne sarcoides genus Ascocoryne  

The fruiting body is globular, then to-shaped and finally saucer-shaped, with a wavy and irregularly lobed margin, reddish pink to violet pink, without stem, or with a rudimentary one.

The flesh is concolorous with outer surface, gelatinous; its taste is not distinctive; the odour is not distinctive.

The fertile surface is smooth. The spore print is white.

It grows on wood, on dead wood (branches or tree trunks), favouring beech.

The fruiting period takes place from September to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 1 cm (between 0.1 and 2 cm)

Chemical tests : asci tips blued with Melzer's reagent.

Distinctive features : purple pink to violaceous pink gelatinous fruiting body, top-shaped or saucer-shaped, sometimes with a rudimentary stalk; in dense clusters on dead wood, favouring beech; late in the mushroom season

Ascocoryne sarcoides is quite rare and scattered in the forest of Rambouillet, and is frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Ascocoryne sarcoides in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Ascocoryne sarcoides in the forest of Rambouillet



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