Basidiomycete Fungi (non-gilled).11.f Gasteromycetes - Bird’s Nest Fungi (or Splash Cups)

Bird’s Nest Fungi (or Splash Cups): very small, almost cup-fungus like mushrooms on wood or on the ground, with tiny egg-like spore sacs within the deep cup-like “nests”; spores are flung out by water drops or other disturbance; summer and fall. Crucibulum, Cyathus