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Bristly Tropical Cup

Cookeina tricholoma

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Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist. — (c) pablocuevas7, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Costa Rica.

Costa Rica	325
Mexico	271
Brazil	262
Ecuador	249
Colombia	160
Provincia Puntarenas	154
Malaysia	129
Panama	119
Peru	79
Provincia Alajuela	73

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Classification

Kingdom	Fungi Including Lichens · Fungi
Phylum	Ascomycete Fungi · Ascomycota
Class	Operculate Ascomycetes · Pezizomycetes
Order	Pezizales
Family	Elf Cups and Allies · Sarcoscyphaceae
Genus	Cookeina

Sources

Names, taxonomy and observation counts: www.inaturalist.org
Photos and recordings: the creator and source are on each one.
How much to rely on each source

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Practise Bristly Tropical Cup with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.

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