Anthracobia muelleri (Charcoal Cups)
Anthracobia muelleri (Berk.) Rifai (1968)
Charcoal Cups
Fire responsive fungus
Cup/disc fungus: Very small yellowish-orange disc, 2-4 mm diam., slightly concave or flat with short dark brown hairs irregularly clumped especially around the margin of the disc. Stalkless
Habitat: Burnt ground and burnt wood.
Habit: Gregarious to densely crowded and contorted
Spore deposit: colourless, c. 18 x 7 µm, oblong-ellipsoidal
Comments: Always associated with burnt areas, often colonising large areas of ground after bushfires.
Anthracobia muelleri is listed in the following regions:
Species information
- Anthracobia muelleri Scientific name
- Charcoal Cups Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Machine learning
