Distribution: Worldwide

Substrate: dung, manure, or compost

Spores: spring, summer, and fall

Conservation Status: Not of concern

Edibility: It probably is edible if found in large enough numbers and cleaned well.

It probably is edible if found in large enough numbers and cleaned well.

Fruitbody 3-10 mm wide, rounded and closed at first, soon opening and becoming cup-shaped, finally shallowly cup-shaped, stalkless; inner surface bright yellow to orange-yellow or pale orange; outer surface and margin pale orange-yellow, with a sparse coating of long, pale brown, stuff hairs.

Sources: Trudell, Steve and Joe Ammirati. Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest. Portland, Timber Press, Inc. 2009. Beug, Michael W., Alan E. Bessette, and Arleen R. Bessette. Ascomycete Fungi of North America. Austin, University of Texas Print, 2014.