Specimen 1: Pezizia

Figure 1: Peziza on log

Figure 2: Peziza ruler for scale

Figure 3: Cup-shaped Pezizia on log

Name: Peziza
Phylum: Ascomycota
Family: Pezizaceae
Common Name: Disk Fungus
Collection Date: October 8, 2015
Habitat: Found on decaying log in a beech-maple forest
Location: James H. Barrow Field Station, Hiram, Ohio
Description: Purple, brownish cup-shaped fruiting body in a tight cluster. Each cup about 1 cm or less in diameter.
Collector: Linden Glaze

Key used: Arora, David. 1979, 1986. Mushrooms Demystified. 2nd edition. Ten Speed Press

Keying steps: 

Asomycetes pg. 55
Cup Fungi Key pg. 783
1. Fruiting body not cabbage-like.... 3
3. Fruiting body cup-shaped... 4
4. Stalk absent.... Pezizceae and Allies pg. 817

Pezizceae and Allies Key pg. 817
1. Fruiting body not a puffball.... 2
2. Fruiting body not a underground ball, splitting at the top into star-like rays.... 3
3. Fruiting body not a n erect club.... 4
4. Fruiting body cuplike/earlike.... 6
6. Stalk absent.... Peziza and Allies pg. 818