Appearance
Fruiting body: 0.5-1cm wide and the same tall, cylindric, turbinate (top shaped) to cup shaped, disc usually flat to concave, but sometimes slightly convex, margin even or slightly wavy, fruiting bodies compressed when clustered, flesh gelatinous, soft, translucent with whites core; light yolk-yellow, margin white, outer surface whitish; undersurface "sometimes drawn out toward the base like a stipe" (Breitenbach), 0.3-1.4 cm in diameter, 0.5-1.5cm high, at first pustulate, becoming turbinate or pezizoid, without stem or with short stem, occasionally surrounded by a dingy cream mycelial weft, often collapsing on substrate when old; consistency of fruiting body firm-gelatinous, interior of cup dingy yellow, yellow or orange yellow when fresh, darkening when old, drying dull red-brown, non-spore bearing surface white, drying dingy white to cream; cortex and stem tomentose (McNabb) spore deposit yellow (Buczaki).
Distribution
widely distributed US-Europe-AsiaHabitat
on hardwoods, rarely conifers, on limbs with bark, wood with bark, branches, (Ginns) breaking through the bark gregariously to clustered on dead wood of Abies, as well as various hardwoods, usually on upper side of fallen branches still with bark.References:
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