Scarlet Cup Fungi - Tropical Cookeina sulcipes

Common Name: Scarlet Cup Fungi
Scientific Name:Tropical Cookeina sp.
Description: Cookeina is a genus of tropical cup fungi that often have bright colors stipes and hairs along the edges of the cup.
Habitat/Substrate: Members of the Tropical Cookeina sp. grow as saprotrophs on dead wood, and especially in the case ofTropical Cookeina sp. on mostly damp branches or twigs of hard-wood species often in association with damp loving mosses
Photo by: Aishah Farhana Shahbudin
Id by: Johari Jalinas and Gerrit J. Keizer
Location: Gunung Senyum, Jengka, Pahang Darul Makmur
Resource: http://malaysianfungi.webs.com/
Reference:

1. http://mushroomobserver.org/5527?_js=on&_new=true&id=5527
2. Booth Courtenay, Harold H. Burdsall, Jr. 1982. A Field Guide to Mushrooms and Their Relatives.
3. Gerrit J. Keizer. 2007. The Complete Encylopedia of Mushrooms. Rebo Publsihers.
4. Ronald Rayner. 1979. Mushrooms and Toadstools- 37 species identified with 220 colour photographs. The Hamlyn Publishing Group Limited 1979