40+ Brown Jelly Cup Fungus. Jelly fungi represent some of the most primitive clades of basidiomycota, two groups of them in classes by themselves far removed from the agaricomycetes class where you find most fruiting bodies. Jelly cup fungus, guepiniopsis alpina, chester lake trail, peter lougheed provincial park, kananaskis, alberta, canada.
These little cute jelly cups may look like something you ate in your childhood, but beetles appreciate these cups way more than us.
Mushroom has been used for polypores, puffballs, jelly fungi, coral fungi, bracket fungi, stinkhorns, and cup fungi. They may be among the earliest. Because they produce an ascocarp (fruiting body) in which saclike asci develop. These yellow cup like fungi were so small that i had to crop the photo even though it was taken in macro mode.