Cyathus triplex

Exoperidium hirsute, with hairs containing brown intracellular pigment, with slightly pointed apices, arising from similarly pigmented filamentous hyphae with clamped septa.

Endoperidium with slender, densely compacted hyphae, with very faint grayish-brown intracellular pigment.

Peridiole with a two-layered cortex and thin tunica.

Basidia collapsing readily and difficult to observe, clavate and 2- to 4-spored according to literature.

Spores ellipsoidal, smooth, hyaline, very thick-walled (up to 3 or 4 µm thick), inamyloid in Melzer's reagent.

Herbarium material available: JTP2760/26.