Bisporella citrina    (Batsch) Korf & S.E. Carpenter 

common name(s) : Lemon Disco, Yellow Bisporella 

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

synonyms: Calycella citrina 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Helotium citrinum)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Bisporella citrina
photo gallery of Bisporella citrina potential confusions with Bisporella citrina toxicity of Bisporella citrina genus Bisporella  

The fruiting body is disk-shaped or saucer-shaped, bright yellow then orange-yellow, sometimes with a rudimentary stem.

The flesh is thin; its taste is not distinctive; the odour is not distinctive.

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

It grows on wood, in dense troops on dead deciduous wood (branches or tree trunks), on beech, ash.

The fruiting period takes place all year long.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 0.2 cm (between 0.05 and 0.3 cm)
  total height approximately 0.3 cm (between 0.2 and 0.4 cm)

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

Distinctive features : bright yellow to orange fruiting body, cup-shaped and small sized (<3mm); in dense troops, on dead deciduous wood

Bisporella citrina is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is very frequent, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Bisporella citrina in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Bisporella citrina in the forest of Rambouillet



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