Mushrooms · La Saladita, Guerrero

Tropical Orange Cup

Cookeina sulcipes

Spanish: Copita anaranjada

Tropical Orange Cup (Cookeina sulcipes)
Photographed by nourou on iNaturalist · CC-BY-NC · taken in Plateau, Benin, not near La Saladita

Cookeina sulcipes is a species of cup fungus in the family Sarcoscyphaceae. First described in 1842 by Miles Joseph Berkeley as a species of Peziza, it was transferred to the genus Cookeina by Otto Kuntze in 1891.

TaxonomyPezizomycetes › Pezizales › Sarcoscyphaceae
Local recordsNot recorded by research-grade iNaturalist observations within about 50 km; listed from the site's curated guide
Global records413 on iNaturalist

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Cite as: “Tropical Orange Cup (Cookeina sulcipes) at La Saladita”, La Saladita Field Guide, lasaladita.com/species/cookeina-sulcipes/, updated 2026-09-26. Observation counts and months come from iNaturalist research-grade records within about 50 km of 17.8375°N, 101.7606°W (the survey box also takes in Zihuatanejo, Ixtapa and Troncones); summary text from Wikipedia where present.