Aleuria aurantia (orange peel fungus) is a widespread ascomycete fungus in the order Pezizales. The bright orange, cup-shaped ascocarps often resemble orange peels strewn on the ground, giving this species its common name.
Taxonomy
Christiaan Hendrik Persoon described the orange peel as Peziza aurantia in 1800. The specific epithet is the Latin word aurantia "orange". Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel placed it the genus Aleuria in 1870.
Description
The orange fruiting body is wide, cup-shaped, externally fuzzy, and often misshapen due to crowding from other fruiting bodies. The flesh is fragile. The spores produce a white spore print, It fruits mainly on bare clay or disturbed soil. though difficult to collect intact