Bulgaria inquinans    (Pers.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : Black Bulgar, Bachelor's Button 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Leotiomycetes/Leotiomycetidae/Leotiales/Bulgariaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae  

synonyms: Bulgaria polymorpha 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Phaeobulgaria inquinans)  

edibility : inedible

photo gallery of Bulgaria inquinans
photo gallery of Bulgaria inquinans potential confusions with Bulgaria inquinans toxicity of Bulgaria inquinans genus Bulgaria  

The fruiting body is globular then disk-shaped, flattened and without warts, black (dark red-brown when young).

The fertile surface is smooth. The spore print is black (dark brown young).

It grows on wood, on dead wood recently felled.

The fruiting period takes place from September to March.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 5 cm)
  total height approximately 1.5 cm (between 1 and 2 cm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

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



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