Porodisculus pendulus (Fr.) Murrill 1907

Porodisculus pendulus (Schw.) Murrill
Peziza pendula Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. I^eipzig 1 : 92. 1822.
Sphaeria pocula Schw. Proc. Acad. Phila. 4 : 189. 1832. (Type f om New York.) Polyporus cupulaeformis Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 1 : 38. 1872. (Type from South Carolina.) Porodiscus pendulus Murrill, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 433. 1903.
Pilei gregarious, erumpent from the lenticels of dead branches. Pileus very small, turbinate-cup-shaped, attached at the vertex, soon decurved and pendant, 1-2 mm. broad, 3-5 mm. long; surface anoderm, azonate, smooth, umbrinous, uniformly covered with a brown powder, often ashy-white with age; margin inflexed, concolorous, sterile: context white, fibrous, very thin ; tubes very short, annual, white within, mouths circular, constricted, white, pruinose, becoming concolorous, 6-7 to a mm. , edges entire : spores globose, smooth, hyaline, 4/^: stipe 2 mm. or less in length, vertically attached, gradually expanding into the pileus, which it resembles in surface and context.
Type locality : North Carolina.
Habitat : Fallen dead twigs and branches of chestnut, oak, hickory, ash, sumac, red cedar,
etc.
Distribution : Connecticut to Florida, Missouri, and Nicaragua.