Names, authorship and dates from Index Fungorum.

• BasidiomycotaPhylum
• └─ AgaricomycetesClass
• └─ AgaricalesOrder
• └─ AgaricaceaeFamily
• └─ CyathusGenus

Higher ranks from Catalogue of Life (COL26.9 XR).

Lifestylesaprobiont

On strongly decayed wood, twigs and chips of broadleaves, also on buried wood, in damp, shady places

⚠ Before you pickWild fungi may be taken in small quantities for your own use (§39(3) BNatSchG) — but not in nature reserves or national parks, on closed land or on farmland in use, and never for sale (§39(4)). In Bavaria this right is anchored in Art. 141(3) of the state constitution and is limited to locally customary amounts; the competent authority is the district nature-conservation authority (untere Naturschutzbehörde). Local signs and ordinances come first.

Species protection from BArtSchV Annex 1 and §2(1), retrieved 2026-10-15; Red List from Dämmrich et al. (2016) (BfN / Rote-Liste-Zentrum). Not legal advice — local rules and signage may be stricter. BArtSchV Annex 1 · Red List data

• inedible mushroom
• medicinal mushrooms

Inedible — small, tough and of no culinary value

• ▸ Goblet- to vase-shaped fruit bodies, narrowed towards the base and opening into a broad mouth
• ▸ Outer surface woolly-velvety, brown to grey-brown; inner surface strikingly longitudinally grooved and silvery-grey
• ▸ Inside, several flat grey disc-like peridioles (the 'eggs') attached by fine elastic cords
• ▸ Grows in tufts and rows on decayed wood, twigs and woody debris

The peridioles are the spore packages: raindrops splash them out of the open cup while the elastic cord stays stuck to the substrate — an ingenious dispersal mechanism.