Cheilymenia granulata
Small orange-red or coral-red discs on dung, usually cowpats. It does not have dark fringing hairs, but the outside is finely granular and the margins of the discs are minutely serrated.
Several other species of small orange disc-shaped ascomycetes colonise herbivore dung.
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On dung, usually from cows.
All year but most commonly in summer and autumn
Saharima Roenisch
Woodhouse Eaves, Beacon Hill Country Park
20 November 2019
recorded on cow dung
stepgray4
Charnwood Lodge
25 September 2022
Saharima Roenisch
Woodhouse Eaves, Beacon Hill Country Park
20 November 2019
David Nicholls
Ulverscroft NR
12 November 2020
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Species profile
- Common names
- Cowpat Gem
- Species group:
- Fungi
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Pezizales
- Family:
- Pyronemataceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 9
- First record:
- 11/10/2011 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 08/11/2024 (Markham, Marian)
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