[Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.]
(scarlet elfcups)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Sarcoscypha austriaca Scarlet Elfcup					Species	2 subtaxa	65 images	6 ident. refs
Sarcoscypha coccinea Ruby Elfcup					Species		4 images	1 ident. refs

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Informal	[Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups)
Genus	Sarcoscypha (elfcups)
Family	SARCOSCYPHACEAE (a family of cup fungi)
Order	PEZIZALES (cup fungus)
Subclass	PEZIZOMYCETIDAE (a subclass of cup fungi and discomycetes)
Class	PEZIZOMYCETES (discomycetes)
Subphylum	PEZIZOMYCOTINA (a subphylum of ascomycetes)
Phylum	ASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
Kingdom	FUNGI (true fungi)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

[Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] is also a member of:
Micromycetes - microfungi (via Ascomycota)
Fungi s.l. - fungi (in the broad sense) (via Fungi)
Lower Plants - lower plants (via Fungi s.l.)

Records of [Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups) :
1: [Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups)
6 Apr 1980	OSGR: TQ21	50° 50’ N, 0° 10’ W	Vice County: East Sussex (VC 14)	England

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
()	Butterfill, G.B. & Spooner, B.M.	1995	Sarcoscypha (Pezizales) in Britain	Mycologist Vol 09 (1): 20-26.

[Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Sarcoscypha
(elfcups)

SARCOSCYPHACEAE
(a family of cup fungi)

PEZIZALES
(cup fungus)

ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters, ascomycete)

FUNGI
(true fungi)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

Fungi s.l.
(fungi (in the broad sense))

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for [Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 4 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for [Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] (scarlet elfcups)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

[Sarcoscypha coccinea agg.] is also a member of:

Identification Works

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)