Helvella solitaria is a species of fungus in the family Helvellaceae. It produces cup-shaped fruiting bodies with dark brown to black spore-bearing surfaces supported by ribbed, whitish stalks. First described by the Finnish mycologist Petter Adolf Karsten in 1871, the species is distinguished by its hollow stipe with three to six blunt ribs that continue onto the cup's base and its ellipsoid-shaped spores containing a single oil droplet.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Helvella solitaria being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Helvella acetabulum
- Helvella monachella
- Helvella costifera
- Helvella compressa
- Dissingia leucomelaena
- Helvella macropus
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Order
- Pezizales
- Family
- Helvellaceae
- Genus
- Helvella
- Species
- Helvella solitaria
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