27-01-2013 18:58
                Chris Yeates
                Bonsoir tousfound on an attached Quercus twig, gro
                                    27-01-2013 19:26
                Rodríguez Borja
                HelloToday´s morning I have found this Cosmospo
                                    26-01-2013 15:43
Bonjour à tous,Voici un indéterminé restant de
                                    20-01-2013 19:18
                Gilles Corriol
                Bonjour à tous,Mon Urceolella semble être dans u
                                    26-01-2013 08:05
Nina FilippovaI gues that "mollisia knowledge" is a matter of
                                    24-01-2013 10:12
Reza ShaianDear friends, I collected a Helvella specimen that
                                    25-01-2013 08:44
Stefan BlaserHello everybody Can someone give me some advice o
                                    24-01-2013 23:41
Hello!Pezizales this was collected in cow feces, s
I collected some small caps of Helvella that are similar to H. acetabulum, but all of caps are small (I have some H. acetabulum specimens from there). Collected from south of Caucasia (Iranian part of Caucasus), a broadleaf forest.
Cap up to 1.5 cm broad, 1 cm high, upper surface brown, lower surface pale brown and pubescent, stipe ribbed with cream sharp edge ribs, up to 1.5 cm high and 0.7 cm diam (at base), white to cream.
Spores 16-19 x 11-12.5. what do you think about them?
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I see in the photo that your specimen has rounded edge ribs, and Helvella acetabulum has sharp edge ribs. I think your specimen is more like Helvella costifera.
Best,
Fidel
the first idea observing the photo is H. costifera, also because the ribs are whitish until their very end.
It's true that, usually, H. costifera has more rounded rigde edges. But it should be said that the sharp ribs in H. acetabulum become evident when the ascomata are rather developed.
In our case, the very small ascomata and the spores at the lowest point of the usual range seem to indicate that the specimens are rather young. In the first stage the ribs are blunt and rounded also in H. acetabulum.
H. costifera, at least in my area of collection, is mostly gray rather than brown.
So I think we will keep some doubt about this collection.
Reza, what did you mean with "sharp edge ribs"? Because in your photo, as Fidel pointed out, the edges are rounded, not sharp. Maybe you mean that the ribs ends abruptly on the surface of the apothecium?
Regards
Mario
