Peziza repanda    Wahlenb. 

common name(s) : Palamino Cup 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Pezizaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Pezizineae/Pezizaceae  
(unconfirmed synonyms: Galactinia repanda)  

edibility : inedible

potential confusions with Peziza repanda toxicity of Peziza repanda genus Peziza  

The fruiting body is cup-shaped, with a wavy margin, with a pale ochre-brown to chestnut-brown internal surface, the external surface being ochraceous cream.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood or on the ground, in leaf litter of humus-rich soils, close to stumps or on buried wood.

The fruiting period takes place from April to December.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 6 cm (between 2 and 12 cm)
  total height approximately 2.5 cm (between 1 and 4 cm)


Peziza repanda is quite rare and localised in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Peziza repanda in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Peziza repanda in the forest of Rambouillet



page updated on 14/01/18