These orange fruit bodies were growing as caespitose clusters or singularly in a deep layer of decaying raked hardwood leaves, mostly maple. The stipes buried in leaf litter easily broke away from the variously-shaped caps; cuplike, broadly concave, nearly planar, convex, with wavy or irregular margins. Disturbing them in situ caused spore-clouds to rise into the air, ala-Peziza. Two collections represented, one when they were first seen on 5-29 and another on 5-30.
Spores smooth, ellipsoid, thin-walled, many biguttulate (more numerously for those from the 5-30 collection), 9-13 x 4-5.5.
Asci not amyloid, with 8 spores.
Paraphyses thinly stretched-clavate with slightly enlarged apices.
I scoped the spores mounted in each of cotton blue and Congo red (from prints on a slide), In Congo red the guttules are more eident.
Observed in Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA.