BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Aleuria aurantia (Pers.) Fuckel, 1870 (Orange Peel Fungus)

Notes (MWS) A large cup fungus with a bright orange hymenium which, from a distance, looks like discarded orange peel. It is a common autumn fungus of bare ground in woods and among grass in lawns and road verges.
British records 1345

Sets of Photographs

These relate to individual finds ("biological records") of the organism.

Taxon Summary # images # photos Date Vice-county Country
Aleuria aurantia Fruitbody 4 4 16 Oct 1976 Surrey England
Aleuria aurantia Fruitbody 3 3 30 Nov 1986 North Wiltshire England
Aleuria aurantia Fruitbody 2 2 28 Oct 1969 East Norfolk England

Suggested Literature

Aleuria aurantia may be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
FUNGI SS.
(true fungi)
ASCOMYCOTA
(spore shooters)
ASCOMYCETES
(spore shooters)
PEZIZALES
(an order of cup fungi and discomycetes)
Aleuria
(a genus of cup fungi)
Discomycetes (via Pezizales) Fungi sl.

Creative Commons Licence
Unless otherwise expressly stated, all original material on the BioImages website by Malcolm Storey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License .