Peziza

Peziza is a large genus of saprophytic cup fungi that grow on the ground, rotting wood, or dung. Most members of this genus are of unknown edibility and are difficult to identify as separate species without use of microscopy. The polyphyletic genus has been estimated to contain over 100 species.^[1]

Peziza
Peziza badia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Pezizomycetes
Order:	Pezizales
Family:	Pezizaceae
Genus:	Peziza Dill. ex Fries (1822)
Type species
Peziza vesiculosa Bull. (1790)

Peziza spp. fruit body spore sacs teased out and viewed under a microscope

Species

Species include:

• Peziza ampliata
• Peziza arvernensis
• Peziza badia
• Peziza cerea
• Peziza domiciliana
• Peziza echinospora
• Peziza erini^[2]
• Peziza fimeti
• Peziza granulosa
• Peziza halophila
• Peziza infossa
• Peziza micropus group
• Peziza moseri
• Peziza oliviae^[3]
• Peziza ostracoderma
• Peziza petersii
• Peziza phyllogena
• Peziza praetervisa
• Peziza repanda
• Peziza succosa
• Peziza sylvestris
• Peziza varia
• Peziza vesiculosa
• Peziza violacea