Description
The fruiting body is 0.5-2 cm in diameter, at first spherical, then cushion or saucer-shaped, sessile or on a poorly developed false pedicle. The inner spore-bearing surface (hymenophore) is smooth or wrinkled, lilac-reddish to pinkish-lilac. The external sterile surface is also pinkish-lilac, usually smooth, sometimes fine-haired.
The pulp has a rubbery-jelly-like consistency, tasteless and odorless, pinkish-lilac.
Spores are whitish in mass, 11-18 × 3.5-5 microns, elliptical, sometimes asymmetric, with smooth walls, when ripe with one septum. The paraphysis is cylindrical, branched, septate.
The mushroom has no nutritional value, it is considered inedible.
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Ascocoryne cylichnium (Tul.) Korf, 1971 differs from the teleomorph stage in larger apothecia with a more uneven sterile side in adult fungi, larger spores (18-30 × 4-6 microns) with several septa and unbranched paraphysis. Anamorph is not developed in this closely related species.
Synonyms
- Bulgaria sarcoides (Jacq.) Fr., 1821
- Chlorospleniella sarcoides (Jacq.) Kuntze, 1891
- Coryne sarcoides (Jacq.) Tul., 1865, nom. illeg.
- Helvella purpurea Schaeff., 1774
- Helvella sarcoides (Jacq.) Dicks., 1785
- Lichen sarcoides Jacq., 1781basionym
- Octospora sarcoides (Jacq.) Gray, 1821
- Ombrophila sarcoides (Jacq.) P. Karst., 1871
- Peziza porphyria Batsch, 1783
- Peziza sarcoides (Jacq.) Pers., 1801
- Peziza tremelloidea Bull., 1791
- Sarcodea sarcoides (Jacq.) P. Karst., 1871, nom. inval.
- Tremella sarcoides (Jacq.) With., 1796
Anamorphs:
- Acrospermum dubium Pers., 1797basionym
- Coryne sarcoides (Fr.) Bonord., 1851
- Coryne sarcoides var. dubia (Pers.) Corda, 1838
- Denrdrodochium sarcoides (Fr.) Fautrey, 1896
- Pirobasidium sarcoides (Fr.) Höhn., 1902
- Tremella acrospermum Nees, 1817
- Tremella amethystea Bull., 1791
- Tremella dubia (Pers.) Pers., 1801
- Tremella dubia var. amethystea (Bull.) Pers., 1801
- Tremella sarcoides Fr., 1821
